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MOOT, v.t. [L. contra.] To debate; to discuss; to argue for and against. The word is applied chiefly to the disputes of students in law, who state a question and discuss it by way of exercise to qualify themselves for arguing causes in court.

MOOT, v.i. To argue or plead on a supposed cause.

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MOOT, v.t. [L. contra.] To debate; to discuss; to argue for and against. The word is applied chiefly to the disputes of students in law, who state a question and discuss it by way of exercise to qualify themselves for arguing causes in court.

MOOT, v.i. To argue or plead on a supposed cause.

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MOOT, v.i.

To argue or plead on a supposed cause.


MOOT, v.t. [Sax. motian, to meet, to debate; Sw. möta, to meet, to fall, to come to or on; Goth. motyan. See Meet, of which this word is a different orthography. The sense of debate is from meeting, like encounter, from the French; for meeting gives rise to the sense of opposing, and the Dan. mod and Sw. emot, against, a preposition answering to L. contra, Fr. contre, is from this root.]

To debate; to discuses; to argue for and against. The word is applied chiefly to the disputes of students in law, who state a question and discuss it by way of exercise to qualify themselves for arguing causes in court.


Moot
  1. See 1st Mot.

    [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. A ring for gauging wooden pins.
  3. 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.

  4. To argue or plead in a supposed case.

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

  5. 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.
  6. Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.
  7. 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.

  8. 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, verb transitive [Latin contra.] To debate; to discuss; to argue for and against. The word is applied chiefly to the disputes of students in law, who state a question and discuss it by way of exercise to qualify themselves for arguing causes in court.

MOOT, verb intransitive To argue or plead on a supposed cause.

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