Meaning of MOOT
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- [adj] capable of being disproved
- [adj] open to debate
- [v] think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind"
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| | Synonyms: | | consider, contestable, controversial, debatable, debate, deliberate, disputable, disputed, turn over |
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| | See Also: | | consult, discuss, premeditate, see, take counsel, talk over, think twice, wrestle | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Moot\, v.
See 1st {Mot}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
\Moot\, n. (Shipbuilding)
A ring for gauging wooden pins.
\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.
\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.
\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.
\Moot\, a.
Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided;
debatable; mooted.
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| | Definition: | | A moot case or a moot point is one not subject to a judicial determination because it involves an abstract question or a pretended controversy that has not yet actually arisen or has already passed. Mootness usually refers to a court's refusal to consider a case because the issue involved has been resolved prior to the court's decision, leaving nothing that would be affected by the court's decision. |
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