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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
moot \moot\ (m[=o]t), v. See 1st {Mot}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
moot \moot\ (m[=oo]t), noun (Shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Moot \Moot\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Mooted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mooting}.] [OE. moten, motien, AS. m[=o]tan to meet or assemble for conversation, to discuss, dispute, fr. m[=o]t, gem[=o]t, a meeting, an assembly; akin to Icel. m[=o]t, 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.
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. [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Moot \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. [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Moot \Moot\, verb (used without an object) To argue or plead in a supposed case.
There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting. --B. Jonson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Moot \Moot\, noun [AS. m[=o]t, gem[=o]t, 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. [From {Moot}, v.] 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.
{to make moot} verb (used with an object) to render moot[2]; to moot[3]. [1913 Webster +PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mot \Mot\ (m[=o]t), v. [Sing. pres. ind. {Mot}, {Mote}, {Moot} (m[=o]t), pl. {Mot}, {Mote}, {Moote}, pres. subj. {Mote}; imp. {Moste}.] [See {Must}, v.] [Obs.] May; must; might.
He moot as well say one word as another --Chaucer.
The wordes mote be cousin to the deed. --Chaucer.
Men moot [i.e., one only] give silver to the poore freres. --Chaucer.
{So mote it be}, so be it; amen; -- a phrase in some rituals, as that of the Freemasons.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
moot
adjective
1: of no legal significance (as having been previously decided)
2: open to argument or debate; "that is a moot question" [syn: {arguable}, {debatable}, {disputable}]
noun: a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise; "he organized the weekly moot"
verb: think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind" [syn: {consider}, {debate}, {turn over}, {deliberate}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
119 Moby Thesaurus words for "moot": abstract, academic, advance, agitate, arguable, argue, argufy, armchair, at issue, bandy words, bicker, bring before, bring forward, bring up, broach, canvass, cavil, choplogic, commend to attention, confutable, confuted, conjectural, contend, contest, contestable, contested, controversial, controvertible, cross swords, cut and thrust, debatable, debate, deniable, disbelieved, discept, discredited, disputable, dispute, disputed, doubtable, doubted, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, exploded, give and take, hassle, have it out, hypothetic, ideal, iffy, impractical, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, indefinite, introduce, join issue, launch, lay before, lock horns, logomachize, make a motion, mistakable, mistrusted, move, notional, offer a resolution, open to doubt, open to question, open up, pettifog, plead, polemicize, polemize, pose, posit, postulate, postulatory, prefer, problematic, problematical, proffer, propose, proposition, propound, put forth, put forward, put it to, questionable, questioned, quibble, recommend, refutable, set before, set forth, spar, speculative, start, submit, suggest, suppositional, suspect, suspected, suspicious, take sides, theoretical, thrash out, try conclusions, uncertain, undecided, under a cloud, under suspicion, undetermined, unresolved, unsettled, ventilate, wrangle
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