moot

Definition of moot

Pronunciation: mōt

v.

1.

n.

1.

(Shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.

v. t.

1.

To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.

[imp. & p. p. Mooted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Mooting.]

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.

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.

v. i.

1.

To argue or plead in a supposed case.

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

- B. Jonson.

n.

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.

2.

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.

Moot court
a mock court, such as is held by students of law for practicing the conduct of law cases. - Dryden.

Moot point
a point or question to be debated; a doubtful question.

to make moot
to render moot{2}; to moot{3}.

a.

1.

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

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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