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noun
- (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 , 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)
- Any assembly, parliament or discursive gathering.
Etymology: Old English witena gemot, witena ÄemÅt.
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