MOOTING

Etymology 1

Noun

mooting (plural mootings)

The activity of taking part in a moot court.

Etymology 2

Verb

mooting

present participle of moot

Anagrams

• tooming

Source: Wiktionary

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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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