wardmote
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English wardmote. Equivalent to ward + moot.
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Noun edit
wardmote (plural wardmotes)
- (historical) A meeting of the inhabitants of a ward, especially in the City of London.
- 2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 121:
- Association was built into the structure of communal government in the City's wardmotes and precinct meetings and in the open vestries of many suburban parishes.
- (historical) A court formerly held in each ward of London, England for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like.
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Middle English edit
Noun edit
wardmote (plural wardmotes)
- wardmote
- c. 1370–1390, [William Langland], “[Prologue]”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...], London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, →OCLC:
- Somme seruen þe kyng · and his siluer tellen / In cheker and in chancerye · chalengen his dettes / Of wardes and wardmotes · weyues and streyues.
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