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micklemote, micklegemote O.E. Hist. (Now rare or Obs.)|ˈmɪk(ə)lməʊt, -gɪməʊt|
[ad. OE. micel ᵹemót great meeting: see mickle a. and moot n.]
The great council or parliamentary assembly under the Anglo-Saxon kings.
[a1050OE. Chron. an. 977 (MS. C.) Her wæs þæt myccle ᵹemot æt Kyrtlingtune.] 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. xx. (1739) 36 Unto the Kings, Lords, and Clergy, must be added, as I said, the Freemen, to make up the Micklemote compleat. 1672–5T. Comber Comp. Temple (1702) 560 A Micelgemot or Great Council (now called a Parliament). a1683Sidney Disc. Govt. iii. xxviii. (1704) 349 Sometimes meeting personally in the Micklegemots. 1832Austin Jurispr. (1879) II. xxviii. 536 The Mickle-mote or Wittenage-mote of the Anglo-Saxons was both the legislature and a court of justice. 1844Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. x. (1862) 131 Whether a Great Council or a Witenagemote, or a Michelgemote, or a Colloquium, or a Parliament. |