Crossword-Solution: GEMOTE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gemote | v. t. | A meeting; -- used in combination, as, Witenagemote, an assembly of the wise men. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “GEMOTE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ANGLO-SAXON court | 3 answers |
| ANGLO-SAXON assembly | 5 answers |
| Anglo Saxon assembly | 5 answers |
| ENGLISH council (medieval) | 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
CAEZME
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eruption
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Sentences with GEMOTE (5)
But Cnut was of nobler stuff than Æthelred, and his conquest of the realm was followed by the gathering of a new gemote at Oxford to resume the work of reconciliation which Eadric had interrupted.
Germ._ _c._ 11.] WITH us in England this general council hath been held immemorially, under the several names of _michel-synoth_, or great council, _michel-gemote_ or great meeting, and more frequently _wittena-gemote_ or the meeting of wise men.
But although the king himself had so little authority, that it cannot be supposed for a moment that his laws were regarded as imperative by the people, it has nevertheless been claimed, in modern times, by some who seem determined to find or make a precedent for the present legislative authority of parliament, that his laws were authoritative, _when assented to_ by the _Witena-gemote_, or assembly of wise men--that is, the bishops and barons.
These places he furnished with Officers, and assigned foure Termes in the yere for determining controuersies among the people: whereas before all suites were summarily heard and determined in the _Gemote_ or monthly conuention in euery hundred, without either formalities or delay.
Women landowners sat in the Shire Gemote, or held Motes of their own; women Burgesses were present at Folkmotes, or at Revemotes.