Wit"e*na*ge*mote` [AS. witena gem&omac;t an assembly of the wise; wita a wise man + gem&omac;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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