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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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Etymology of 'Moot'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... him to make for the Garth. They were, however, in front, where he would sooner have them than behind, and he set off down the valley for Hexham. He found the old Border town, clustering round the tall dark mass of the abbey, strangely picturesque; the ancient Moot Hall and market square invited his interest, but he shrank from wandering about the streets in the dark. Now he had Graham's checks, he must be careful; moreover his knapsack and leggings made him conspicuous, and he went to a ...

— Carmen's Messenger • Harold Bindloss

... strength of information given by a chart with which they had been furnished. [**] This "open passage" can hardly refer to anything else than Torres Strait. But in that case it is clear that Jansz. cannot have solved the problem, but must have left it a moot point. At all events he sailed past the strait, through which a few months after him Luiz Vaez de Torres sailed from east ...

— The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765 • J. E. Heeres

... policy of our arming slaves is in my opinion a moot point, unless the enemy set the example. For, should we begin to form battalions of them, I have not the smallest doubt, if the war is to be prosecuted, of their following us in it, and justifying the measure upon our own ground. The contest then must be, who can ...

— History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George W. Williams

... send him downstairs at the lady's heels. The fellow was a perfect riddle, hard to read as the zebra lines on the skin of a wild jackass—if Providence intended any meaning when she traced them! and it's a moot point: as it is whether some of our poets have meaning and are not composers of zebra. 'No one knows but them above!' he said aloud, apparently ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... place as lightly as feathers by use of the gravity discs, those heavily charged plates whose emanations counteracted the earth's attraction. In one busy laboratory they saw an immense television apparatus and heard scientists discussing moot questions with inhabitants of Venus, whose images were depicted on the screen. They witnessed a severe electrical storm in the huge cavern arch over one of the cities, a storm that condensed moisture from the artificially oxygenated and humidified atmosphere ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 • Various

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