witenagemot

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of several assemblies which existed in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th century, initially with regional jurisdiction (there being different ones in Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex and Wessex), later with national jurisdiction, made up of important noblemen. countable,sometimes,uncountable,usually
    — To this study was necessarily added that of the ecclesiastical canons; and the knowledge of each must have given the clergy a great superiority, both as legislators in the witenagemot, and as magistrates in the different courts, at which it was their duty to attend.
  2. A specific session of such an assembly. countable

词形变化

witenagemots plural wittenagemot alternative witenagemote alternative wittenagemote alternative wittena-gemote alternative wittena-gemot alternative

词汇关系

相关词
gemote witan

词源

Learned borrowing from Old English witena ġemōt (literally “assembly of the wise”).
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