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单词 micklegemot
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micklegemotn.

Forms: 1600s micelgemot, 1600s micklegemot, 1700s mitchelgemot, 1800s michelgemote.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mickle adj., gemot n.
Etymology: < mickle adj. + gemot n., after Old English micel gemōt (see quots. OE1, OE1). Compare slightly earlier micklemote n.Compare also the rare early Middle English muchimut assembly of forest officers ( < much adj. + gemot n.), attested only in the following:?c1300 (?c1185) Pseudo-Cnut De Foresta xi, in F. Liebermann Gesetze der Angelsachsen (1903) I. 622 Quaterque in anno generales foreste demonstrationes et uiridis et ueneris forisfactiones, quas muchimut [so Cambr. (c1570)] dicunt, teneant. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (mi·k'lmōut, -gĭmōut) /ˈmɪk(ə)lməʊt/ /-ɡɪməʊt/.
Anglo-Saxon History. Obsolete.
(A meeting of) the great council or assembly of counsellors of the Anglo-Saxon kings. Cf. micklemote n.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of deliberative or legislative assembly > [noun] > English
witenagemotc1000
portmanmoot1185
swanimote1189
folkmoota1513
micklemote1647
micklegemota1683
tun-moot1881
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.i) anno 977 Her wæs þæt myccle gemot æt Kyrtlingtune.
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1020 Þa on Eastron wæs micel gemot æt Cyrenceastre, þa geutlagade man Æþelward ealdorman.]
a1683 A. Sidney Disc. Govt. (1704) iii. xxviii. 349 Sometimes meeting personally in the Micklegemots.
a1699 T. Comber Dial. Tithes in Compan. Temple (1702) II. 560 A Micelgemot or great Council (now called a Parliament).
1729 J. Bramston Art of Politicks 40 In ancient Egbert's Reign The Members to the Mitchelgemot went, In after Ages call'd the Parliament.
1844 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. i. 4 Whether a Great Council or a Witenagemote, or a Michelgemote, or a Colloquium, or a Parliament.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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