Moot \Moot\, v. i. To argue or plead in a supposed case.

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

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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.

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.

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Moot \Moot\, v. See 1st Mot. [Obs.]

--Chaucer.

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Moot \Moot\, n. (Shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.

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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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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