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mooted |
1 definition found 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.
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