What is "gemot"

Usage examples of "gemot".

Above that was the shire moot, and above all the witena gemot, the embryo parliament which advised the King in his lifetime and appointed his successor when he died.

Hence witena gemot, sometimes written as one word, was a meeting of wise men.

But the gemot had one inevitable weakness: when travel was slow and difficult, districts near the meeting place were bound to be better represented than districts far away.

Since the witan met wherever the king was and Edward had never been to the north, no national gemot within memory had been held in the northern earldoms of Mercia or Northumbria.

Merely by cutting the gemot leaders on each continent off from those on all the other land masses, the Sealons had managed to paralyze the already ineffectual Trellisane governmental structure.

Any matter not thus covered is overseen by cooperative councils of gemot representatives, such as the supreme council to which Veedron belongs.

The Man Healers gemot requisitioned some, but most of them were taken away by the Builders gemot.

Those of us who serve and tend our masters-we have no gemot, and we never have had one.

The only time a gemot or its members notice us is when we do something wrong.

Anyone can punish one of us, and there is no gemot to stand in the way.

Federation government behind you whenever you needed it-the biggest gemot in the known universe!

Matabele: there must be a man-no, a being-he could admire and respect, certainly more so than he could feel anything of such emotions toward Veedron or the other gemot leaders.

Veedron and the other gemot leaders were once again in contact with those of their equals who survived on the other continents.

The Trellisanians in fact had nothing to bargain with, and they knew it, and this had elicited in the gemot leaders a sudden and surprising stubbornness founded on wounded pride.

Spock cast a short glance of annoyance at him and turned his attention back to the Trellisanian gemot leaders.