Crossword-Solution: FOLKMOTE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Folkmote | n. | An assembly of the people |
| Folkmote | n. | a general assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “FOLKMOTE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ASSEMBLY of people of a shire | 2 answers |
| ANGLO-SAXON assembly | 5 answers |
| Anglo Saxon assembly | 5 answers |
| ASSEMBLY, ancient | 7 answers |
| Ancient assembly | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZECAME
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eruption
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Sentences with FOLKMOTE (5)
CHAPTER 24 The Folkmote of the Shepherds In about an hour all the folk within the castle began to set toward the ingle wherein lay Ralph and his fellows, and then all rose up, while the folk of the Shepherds took their places on the slopes of the earth walls, but on the top hard by the fire, which was still burning, stood up an old hoar man with a beard exceeding long; he had a sallet on his head, and held a guisarme in his hand.
Skarphedinn took it up as his own at the Thing when thou camest not to the Thing at the summoning of the Fifth Court, and Skarphedinn never means to let it go." "That is not true," says Hauskuld, "for I got it back at the Folkmote last harvest." "Then that was Njal's doing," says Mord.
But if the case was too grave to be settled in this way, it came before the folkmote, which was bound "to find the sentence," and pronounced it in a conditional form; that is, "such compensation was due, if the wrong be proved," and the wrong had to be proved or disclaimed by six or twelve persons confirming or denying the fact by oath; ordeal being resorted to in case of contradiction between the two sets of jurors.
Moreover, there was no other authority to enforce the decisions of the folkmote besides its own moral authority.
Noble or ecclesiastic, he had to submit to the folkmote--Wer daselbst Wasser und Weid genusst, muss gehorsam sein--"Who enjoys here the right of water and pasture must obey"--was the old saying.