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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  moot \moot\ (m[=o]t), v.
     See 1st Mot. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  moot \moot\ (m[=oo]t), n. (Shipbuilding)
     A ring for gauging wooden pins.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Moot \Moot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mooted; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Mooting.] [OE. moten, motien, AS. m[=o]tan to meet or
     assemble for conversation, to discuss, dispute, fr. m[=o]t,
     gem[=o]t, a meeting, an assembly; akin to Icel. m[=o]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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Moot \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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Moot \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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Moot \Moot\, n. [AS. m[=o]t, gem[=o]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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Mot \Mot\ (m[=o]t), v. [Sing. pres. ind. Mot, Mote, Moot
     (m[=o]t), pl. Mot, Mote, Moote, pres. subj. Mote;
     imp. Moste.] [See Must, v.] [Obs.]
     May; must; might.
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           He moot as well say one word as another  --Chaucer.
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           The wordes mote be cousin to the deed.   --Chaucer.
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           Men moot [i.e., one only] give silver to the poore
           freres.                                  --Chaucer.
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     So mote it be, so be it; amen; -- a phrase in some rituals,
        as that of the Freemasons.
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