Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Moot"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

There is a difference between mooting and pleading;
between fencing and fighting. --B. Jonson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

2. [From {Moot}, v.] A discussion or debate; especially, a
discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.

The pleading used in courts and chancery called
moots. --Sir T.
Elyot.

{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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

A problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less
mooted, in this country. --Sir W.
Hamilton.

2. 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.
--Sir T.
Elyot.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

He moot as well say one word as another --Chaucer.

The wordes mote be cousin to the deed. --Chaucer.

Men moot [i.e., one only] give silver to the poore
freres. --Chaucer.

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

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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