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moot

 

  8  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Moot  \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 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Moot  \Moot\,  n.  [AS.  m[=o]t,  gem[=o]t,  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Moot  \Moot\,  v. 
  See  1st  {Mot}.  [Obs.]  --Chaucer. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Moot  \Moot\,  n.  (Shipbuilding) 
  A  ring  for  gauging  wooden  pins. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Moot  \Moot\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Mooted};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Mooting}.]  [OE.  moten,  motien,  AS  m[=o]tan  to  meet  or 
  assemble  for  conversation,  to  discuss,  dispute,  fr  m[=o]t, 
  gem[=o]t,  a  meeting,  an  assembly;  akin  to  Icel.  m[=o]t,  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Moot  \Moot\,  a. 
  Subject,  or  open  to  argument  or  discussion;  undecided; 
  debatable;  mooted. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mot  \Mot\  (m[=o]t),  v.  [Sing.  pres.  ind.  {Mot},  {Mote},  {Moot} 
  (m[=o]t),  pl  {Mot},  {Mote},  {Moote},  pres.  subj.  {Mote}; 
  imp.  {Moste}.]  [See  {Must},  v.]  [Obs.] 
  May  must  might 
 
  He  moot  as  well  say  one  word  as  another  --Chaucer. 
 
  The  wordes  mote  be  cousin  to  the  deed.  --Chaucer. 
 
  Men  moot  [i.e.,  one  only]  give  silver  to  the  poore 
  freres.  --Chaucer. 
 
  {So  mote  it  be},  so  be  it  amen;  --  a  phrase  in  some  rituals, 
  as  that  of  the  Freemasons. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  moot 
  adj  1:  open  to  debate  [syn:  {disputed}] 
  2:  capable  of  being  disproved  [syn:  {debatable},  {disputable}] 
  v  :  think  about  carefully;  weigh;  "They  considered  the 
  possibility  of  a  strike"  [syn:  {consider},  {debate},  {turn 
  over},  {deliberate}]




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