Noun

1. Any assembly, parliament or discursive gathering.
2. The assembly of the Anglo-Saxon national council.

   • 1851: 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. — John Lingard, The Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church (J Murphy, p.102)