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   moot (mōt), v. See 1st Mot. [Obs.]  Chaucer.
   
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   moot (mo͞ot), n. (Shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
   
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   Moot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mooted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mooting.] [OE. moten, motien, AS. mōtan to meet or assemble for conversation, to discuss, dispute, fr. mōt, gemōt, a meeting, an assembly; akin to Icel. mōt, 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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   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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   Moot, n. [AS. mōt, gemōt, 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 moot2; to moot3.
   
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   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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   Mot (mōt), v. [Sing. pres. ind. Mot, Mote, Moot (mōt), 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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