Crossword-Solution: WITENAGEMOTE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Witenagemote | n. | A meeting of wise men; the national council, or legislature, of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest. |
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| an early English national council | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
ADLORS
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with WITENAGEMOTE (5)
And if he looked at the subject as calmly as he would look at a controversy respecting the Roman Comitia or the Anglo-Saxon Witenagemote, he would probably think that the absence of contemporary evidence during so long a period was a defect which later attestations, however numerous, could but very imperfectly supply.
The fir-shrouded hill-top was (according to some antiquaries) an old Roman camp,--if it were not (as others insisted) an old British castle, or (as the rest swore) an old Saxon field of Witenagemote,--with remains of an outer and an inner vallum, a winding path leading up between their overlapping ends by an easy ascent.
This is the origin of the Sheriff's Tourn, which decided in all affairs, civil and criminal, of whatever importance, and from which there lay no appeal but to the Witenagemote.
This council, or Witenagemote, having made such laws as seemed convenient, they then swore to the observance of them.
But considering the low estimation of royalty in those days, this may rather be considered as the voice of the executive magistrate, of the person who compiled the law and propounded it to the Witenagemote for their consent, than of a legislator dictating from his own proper authority.