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wit⋅an

  [wit-n, -ahn]
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–noun Early English History.
1. the members of the national council or witenagemot.
2. (used with a singular verb) the witenagemot.
Origin:
1800–10; mod. E < OE, pl. of wita one who knows, councilor; akin to wit 2
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wit·an   (wĭt'än)   
pl.n.  
  1. The members of the witenagemot in Anglo-Saxon England.
  2. The witenagemot.

[Old English, pl. of wita, councilor; see witenagemot.]
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Witan

Wit"an\, n. pl. [AS., pl. of wita sage, councilor.] Lit., wise men; specif. (A.-S. Hist.), the members of the national, or king's, council which sat to assist the king in administrative and judicial matters; also, the council.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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