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adjective

Moot adj.

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

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.

noun

moot n. (Shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.

Moot n. (Written also mote)

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.

A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice. "The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots."

Moot case, a case or question to be mooted; a disputable case; an unsettled question.

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).

verb

Moot v. t. (past & past part. mooted; pres. part. mooting)

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."

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."

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.

Moot v. i. To argue or plead in a supposed case. "There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting."

moot v. See 1st Mot. (Obs.)

Mot v. (sing. pres. ind. mot, mote, moot, pl. mot, mote, moote; pres. subj. mote; past moste) (Obs.) May; must; might. "He moot as well say one word as another" "The wordes mote be cousin to the deed." "Men moot (i.e., one only) give silver to the poore freres."

So mote it be, so be it; amen; a phrase in some rituals, as that of the Freemasons.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Moot" Quotes from Famous Books

... that way to "convey his matter" — told, or "taught," so much more directly and simply by word of mouth. It is impossible to pronounce positively on the subject; the question whether Chaucer saw Petrarch in 1373 must remain a moot-point, so long as we have only our present information; but fancy loves to dwell on the thought of the two poets conversing under the vines at Arqua; and we find in the history and the writings of Chaucer nothing to contradict, a good deal to countenance, the belief ...

— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer

... institution in Biggleswick which deserves mention. On the south of the common, near the station, stood a red-brick building called the Moot Hall, which was a kind of church for the very undevout population. Undevout in the ordinary sense, I mean, for I had already counted twenty-seven varieties of religious conviction, including three Buddhists, a Celestial Hierarch, five Latter-day Saints, and about ten varieties of Mystic whose names ...

— Mr. Standfast • John Buchan

... being safe. Are you safe? Am I safe? Is anybody safe standing in front of that awful law that rules the whole universe, 'Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap'? I am not going to talk about any of the moot points which this generation has such a delight in discussing, as to the nature, the duration, the purpose, or the like, of future retribution. All that I am concerned in now is that all men, deep down in the bottom of their ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts • Alexander Maclaren

... has been a moot question for a generation past. But even to-day what do we find the general reliance of the American mind in determinating this question? Almost universally the resort is to material agencies! The ...

— Civilization the Primal Need of the Race - The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3 • Alexander Crummell

... fringe of settlements and the deep, quiet places of the country; rebellious to all labour, and pettily thievish, like the English gipsies; rustically ignorant, but with a touch of wood-lore and the dexterity of the savage. Whence they came is a moot point. At the time of the war, they poured north in crowds to escape the conscription; lived during summer on fruits, wild animals, and petty theft; and at the approach of winter, when these supplies failed, built great fires in the forest, and there died stoically by starvation. ...

— The Silverado Squatters • Robert Louis Stevenson

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