MOOT
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moot (m&ō;t), v. See 1st Mot. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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moot (m&oō_;t), 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. m&ō;tan to meet or assemble for conversation, to discuss, dispute, fr. m&ō;t, gem&ō;t, a meeting, an assembly; akin to Icel. m&ō;t, MHG. muoz. Cf. Meet to come together.] 1. To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.
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A problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less mooted, in this country.
Sir W. Hamilton.
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2. Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.
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First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy.
Sir T. Elyot.
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3. To render inconsequential, as having no effect on the practical outcome; to render academic; as, the ruling that the law was invalid mooted the question of whether he actually violated it.
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Moot (?), v. i. To argue or plead in a supposed case.
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There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting.
B. Jonson.
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Moot, n. [AS. m&ō;t, gem&ō;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.
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2. [From Moot, v.] A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.
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The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots.
Sir T. Elyot.
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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. -- to make moot v. t. to render moot{2}; to moot{3}.
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Moot, a. 1. Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.
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2. Of purely theoretical or academic interest; having no practical consequence; as, the team won in spite of the bad call, and whether the ruling was correct is a moot question.
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