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English Dictionary: moot	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
moot adj of no legal significance (as having been previously decided) open to argument or debate; "that is a moot question" Synonym(s): arguable, debatable, disputable, moot n a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise; "he organized the weekly moot" v think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind" Synonym(s): consider, debate, moot, turn over, deliberate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mot \Mot\ (m[omac]t), v. [Sing. pres. ind. {Mot}, {Mote}, {Moot} (m[omac]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Moot \Moot\, n. [AS. m[d3]t, gem[d3]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Moot \Moot\, v. See 1st {Mot}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Moot \Moot\, n. (Shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Moot \Moot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mooted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mooting}.] [OE. moten, motien, AS. m[d3]tan to meet or assemble for conversation, to discuss, dispute, fr. m[d3]t, gem[d3]t, a meeting, an assembly; akin to Icel. m[d3]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Moot \Moot\, a. Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.