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单词 witenagemot
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witenagemotn.

Brit. /ˈwɪtᵻnəjəˌməʊt/, /ˈwɪtn̩əjəˌməʊt/, /ˈwɪtᵻnəɡᵻˌməʊt/, /ˈwɪtn̩əɡᵻˌməʊt/, U.S. /ˈwɪtn̩əɡəˌmoʊt/
Forms: Also Middle English witene imot; 1500s wytena gemote, 1600s weidenagamoot, 1600s–1800s wittena-gemot(e, (1800s witana-gemot(e).
Etymology: Old English witena gemót assembly of wise men: see witan n., wite n.1, and gemot n., moot n.1 N.E.D. (1928) gives the pronunciation as (wi·tĕnagėmōu:t, popularly witĕnæ·gėmǫt) /ˈwɪtənəɡɪˌməʊt/, popularly/wɪtəˈnæɡɪmɒt/.
Historical.
The assembly of the witan n., the national council of Anglo-Saxon times; transferred of modern parliaments or other deliberative assemblies.
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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
c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. iii. v On gemote hiora witena.]
c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) viii. 30 Haec sinodus, þis witena gemot.
1050 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (MS. C) Þa hæfde Eadwerd cing witena gemot on Lunden to midlencten.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 5759 Þat hustinge wes god hit wes witene-imot.
a1601 W. Lambarde Archion (1635) 250 The word Wytena..doth include the Nobility and Commons, because they bee Councellours of the Realme,..in respect whereof the assembling of them, was of some called Wytena Gemote.1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 226 Their Wittenagemots or Mikel Synods.1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 35 (margin) Weidenagamoots.1660 E. Waterhouse Disc. Arms & Armory 181 The Wittena~gemote and great Councel of our wisdom, in the preamble to the Statute of 43 Eliz. c. 12. acknowledgeth it to have been the policy of this Realm.1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xxxiii. 405 The wittena-gemote, or commune concilium of the antient Germans.1785 W. Cowper Let. 22 Jan. (1981) II. 322 Shall I derive no other advantage from the great Wittena Gemot of the nation, than merely to read their debates..?1827 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) IV. 348 Having occasion to write to Sir T. Acland while he is attending the Witena~gemot at Cambridge, I sent him a fact for the geologists.1855 R. Browning Old Pictures in Florence xxxiii A kind of sober Witana-gemot [rhyme bag 'em hot].1899 M. Foster Presid. Addr. Brit. Assoc. 22 The first select Witena~gemote of the science of the world.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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