单词 | gemot |
释义 | gemotn. English History. A meeting; an assembly (in England before the Norman Conquest) for judicial or legislative purposes. See also witenagemot n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] mootOE councilc1275 mootingc1275 dayc1300 assembly1366 consistoryc1374 house1389 parliamentc1390 convention1554 synodal1573 synod1578 synedrion1581 convenement1603 gemot1643 consessus1646 legislative council1651 national assembly1702 council-general1817 concilium1834 runanga1857 1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. i. 33 Their Gemote, or Conventicle held monethly in every Hundred. 1860 W. F. Hook Lives Archbishops Canterbury I. v. 252 When the synod was concluded..the convention formed itself into a gemot. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xviii. 130 It was probably in the same Gemót that William for the first time exercised the power of bestowing an English bishoprick on one of his own countrymen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1643 |
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