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Webster 1828 Edition

ppr.

Disputing; debating for exercise.

Noun.

The exercise of disputing.

mooting

mooting ‎(plural mootings)

The activity of taking part in a moot court.
- William Cobbett
  In this he had been guided, not by the mootings of lawyers, not by the reveries of pamphlets, not by the conversation of coffee-houses, but by the opinions of minds that were fitter to direct than to co-operate with such minds as his.