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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Moot \Moot\, v. i.
   To argue or plead in a supposed case.

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

Moot \Moot\, n. [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.

Moot \Moot\, v.
   See 1st {Mot}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Moot \Moot\, n. (Shipbuilding)
   A ring for gauging wooden pins.

Moot \Moot\, v. t. [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.

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

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.

资料来源 : WordNet®

moot
     n : a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise;
         "he organized the weekly moot"
     v : think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the
         possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your
         mind" [syn: {consider}, {debate}, {turn over}, {deliberate}]

moot
     adj 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}]