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Webster 1913 Edition

Moot

Moot

,
Verb.
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

,
Verb.
I.
To argue or plead in a supposed case.
There is a difference between
mooting
and pleading; between fencing and fighting.
B. Jonson.

Moot

,
Noun.
[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
,
Verb.
]
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

,
Adj.
1.
Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.

Webster 1828 Edition

Moot

MOOT

,
Verb.
T.
[L. contra.] To debate; to discuss; to argue for and against. The word is applied chiefly to the disputes of students in law, who state a question and discuss it by way of exercise to qualify themselves for arguing causes in court.

MOOT

,
Verb.
I.
To argue or plead on a supposed cause.

MOOT

Definition 2024

mõõt

mõõt

See also: moot

Estonian

Noun

mõõt ‎(genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. size, measure

Declension

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