Witenagemote \Wit"e*na*ge*mote`\ (?; 277), n. [AS. witena
gem[=o]t an assembly of the wise; wita a wise man + gem[=o]t
assembly.] (AS. Hist.)
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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