gemot(e Eng. Hist.
(gɪˈməʊt)
[repr. OE. ᵹemót, f. ᵹe- together, ‘com-’ (see y-) + mót moot.]
A meeting; an assembly (in England before the Norman Conquest) for judicial or legislative purposes. See also witenagemot.
| c 1000 Laws of æthelstan c. 20 (Schmid) ᵹif hwa ᵹemot forsitte. 1641 Baker Chron. 27/1 Their Gemote..was a little court held monthly in every hundred. 1860 Hook Lives Abps. I. v. 252 When the synod was concluded..the convention formed itself into a gemot. 1871 Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) IV. xviii. 130 It was probably in the same Gemót that William for the first time exercised the power of bestowing an English bishoprick on one of his own countrymen. |