Moot (?), v.
See 1st Mot.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
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Moot (?), n. Shipbuilding
A ring for gauging wooden pins.
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Moot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mooted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mooting.] [OE. moten, motien, AS. motan to meet or assemble for conversation, to discuss, dispute, fr. mot, gemot, a meeting, an assembly; akin to Icel. mot, MHG. muoz. Cf. Meet to come together.]
1.
To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.
A problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less mooted, in this country.
Sir W. Hamilton.
2.
Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.
First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy.
Sir T. Elyot.
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Moot (?), v. i.
To argue or plead in a supposed case.
There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting.
B. Jonson.
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Moot, n. [AS. mot, gemot, a meeting; -- usually in comp.] [Written also mote.]
1.
A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot.
J. R. Green.
2. [From Moot, v.]
A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.
The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots.
Sir T. Elyot.
Moot case, a case or question to be mooted; a disputable case; an unsettled question. Dryden. -- Moot court, a mock court, such as is held by students of law for practicing the conduct of law cases. -- Moot point, a point or question to be debated; a doubtful question.
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Moot, a.
Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.
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