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Demote vs Gemote - What's the difference?

demote | gemote |

As verbs the difference between demote and gemote

is that demote is to lower the rank or status of something while gemote is to unite, assemble.

As a noun gemote is

a public meeting.

demote

English

Verb

(demot)
  • To lower the rank or status of something.
  • To relegate.

    • Antonyms

    * (lower the rank of ): promote

    Anagrams

    * ----

    gemote

    English

    Alternative forms

    * gemoot, gemot

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A public meeting.
  • A judicial assembly.
  • * 1895 , Geoff Horton, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints
    • Each division had a court subordinate to those that were superior, the highest in each shire being the shire-gemot , or folck-mote, ...
  • An assembly, council.
  • * 1876 , John Richard Green, Stray Studies from England and Italy
    • his conquest of the realm was followed by the gathering of a new gemote at Oxford ...

    Verb

    (gemot)
  • To unite, assemble.
  • * 1778 , Thomas Chatterton, The Rowley Poems
    • I will to the West, and gemote alle the knyghtes''