Moot , a. Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.
Moot , n. [AS. mōt, gemōt, 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.
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.
Moot , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mooted (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Mooting.]
[OE. moten, motien, AS. mōtan to meet
or assemble for conversation, to discuss, dispute, fr. mōt, gemōt, a meeting, an assembly; akin to Icel. mōt, 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.
Moot (m&oomac;t),
n. (Shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
Moot (mōt),
v. See 1st
Mot. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
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