Mote

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A meeting for discussion.
   obsolete
3. A tiny computer for remote sensing; a component element of smartdust.
4. A small particle; a speck.
5. A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs.
   obsolete
6. A place of meeting for discussion.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Thou hypocrite, first cast⟳ out the beam out of thine own⟳ eye; and then shalt thou see⟳ clearly to cast⟳ out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”

“What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise⟳? An Emmet match⟳ an Emperor in might?”

“I wanted to shrink⟳ myself to a mote of dust, plunge into this pool I held in my own⟳ cyclopean hands, soar down these runs of light⟳ to places where light⟳ itself was born from this colloquy of dust.”

“a wardmote in the city of London”

“a folk mote”

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