English

Etymology
Old English witena gemot|witena ġem�t.

Pronunciation
IPA|/�wɪt�n�gɪ�m��t/

Noun
en-noun

1. historic The assembly of the Anglo-Saxon national council.

#:* 1851: To this study was necessarily added that of the ecclesiastical canons; and the knowledge of each must have given the clergy a great superiority, both as legislators in the witenagemot, and as magistrates in the different courts, at which it was their duty to attend. � John Lingard, The Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church (J Murphy, p.102)

1. Any assembly, parliament or discursive gathering.

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