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MOOTER
Etymology 1
Noun
mooter (plural mooters)
A disputer of a mooted case.
Etymology 2
Noun
mooter (uncountable)
Alternative form of mootah
Anagrams
• Moreot, Toomer
Source: Wiktionary
Moot"er, n.
Definition: A disputer of a mooted case.
MOOT
Moot, v.
Definition: See 1st Mot. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Moot, n. (Shipbuilding)
Definition: A ring for gauging wooden pins.
Moot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mooted; p. pr. & vb. n. Mooting.] Etym: [OE. moten, motien, AS. motan to meet or assemble for conversation, to discuss, dispute, fr. mot, gemot, a meeting, an assembly; akin to Icel. mot, 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.
Definition: To argue or plead in a supposed case. There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting. B. Jonson.
Moot, n. Etym: [AS. mot, gemot, 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. Etym: [From Moot, v.]
Definition: 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.
Definition: Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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