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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 




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