witenagemote
English
Etymology
From Old English, meaning "an assembly of the wise".
Noun
witenagemote (plural witenagemotes)
- (historical) A meeting of wise men; the national council or legislature of England in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest.
References
- witenagemote in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.