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▪ I. witan Hist.|ˈwɪtən|
[OE., pl. of wita wite n.1]
The members of the national council in Anglo-Saxon times; the council itself, the witenagemot. Also transf.
1807S. Turner Hist. Anglo-Saxons x. iv. II. 226 The treaty..is said to have been made by the king and his witan. 1839Keightley Hist. Eng. I. 36 Edward, the Elder,..was chosen by the Witan to succeed his father, Alfred. 1874Green Short Hist. i. §1. 4 Their homesteads clustered round a moot-hill..Here, too, the ‘witan’, the Wise Men of the village, met to settle questions of peace and war. 1877Tennyson Harold ii. ii, William. Good, good, and thou wilt help me to the crown. Harold. Ay..if the Witan will consent to this.
▪ II. witan
variant of whitten. |