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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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"Moot" Quotes from Famous Books

... foot of which, when he was playing the game of cat upon a certain Sunday, the voice came to his soul with its tremendous question, "Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven or have thy sins and go to hell?" There stood the Moot Hall as it stands to-day, in which, during his worldly days, he had danced with the rest of the villagers and gained his personal knowledge of Vanity Fair. There, as he tells us expressly, is the wicket gate, the rough old oak and iron gate of Elstow parish church. ...

— Among Famous Books • John Kelman

... is a moot point whether even Dick Vaughan's voice would have served to penetrate the cloud of fury in which Jan moved. He became very terrible in his wrath. One saw less of the bloodhound and more, far more, of his sire, ...

— Jan - A Dog and a Romance • A. J. Dawson

... as a newspaper writer put it, "a rival to Shrewsbury is brought into condition to do it damage." Another was for complicating it with other new schemes. One of the sternest of all controversies still raged round the moot point whether the line was to run from Oswestry to Newtown or from Newtown to Oswestry, and even private friends fell out as to the exact spot on the proposed route at which the actual work should begin! "Discord triumphs—local prejudice is rampart—personal ill-will abounds—as a necessary consequence ...

— The Story of the Cambrian - A Biography of a Railway • C. P. Gasquoine

... ones among them, "but the good council of the wise sachems and the mark of disgrace put upon unruly persons had a very desirable influence."[199] The extreme form of punishment in the power of the folk-moot of the Tuschinen is to be excluded from the public feasts, and to be made a spectator while stoned in effigy and cursed.[200] Sending a man to Coventry is in vogue among the Fejir Beduins: one who kills a friend is so despised that he is never ...

— Sex and Society • William I. Thomas

... Mannes, as an artist, has made a point of "practicing what he preaches" to the student as regards the ensemble of violin and piano will be recalled by all who have enjoyed the 'Sonata Recitals' he has given together with Mrs. Mannes. And as an interpreting solo artist his views regarding the moot question of gut versus wire strings are ...

— Violin Mastery - Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers • Frederick H. Martens

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