gemote

English

Alternative forms

• gemoot, gemot

Etymology

From Old English gemōt (“meeting, council, moot, encounter”), equivalent to ge- +‎ mote

Pronunciation

• enPR: gĕ'mōt

Noun

gemote (plural gemotes)

1. A public meeting.
2. A judicial assembly.
   • 1895, Geoff Horton, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints

     Each division had a court subordinate to those that were superior, the highest in each shire being the shire-gemot, or folck-mote, ...

3. An assembly, council.
   • 1876, John Richard Green, Stray Studies from England and Italy

     his conquest of the realm was followed by the gathering of a new gemote at Oxford ...

Verb

gemote (third-person singular simple present gemotes, present participle gemoting, simple past and past participle gemoted)

1. To unite, assemble.
   • 1778, Thomas Chatterton, The Rowley Poems

     I will to the West, and gemote alle the knyghtes