moot
moot (mōt) , verb
moot (mot) , noun
(Shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
Moot , transitive verb
[Old English moten, motien, Anglo-Saxon mōtan to meet or assemble for conversation, to discuss, dispute, from mōt, gemōt, a meeting, an assembly; akin to Icelandic mōt, Middle High German muoz. Compare 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.
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.
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.
Moot , intransitive verb
To argue or plead in a supposed case.
There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting.
Moot , noun
[Anglo-Saxon mōt, gemōt, a meeting; -- usually in comp.]
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.
A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.
The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots.
Collocations (4)
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 , to render moot{2}; to moot{3}.
Moot , adjective
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.