Witenagemote

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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