moot /(mōt)/

1. See 1st Mot. [Obs.]

1. A ring for gauging wooden pins. (Shipbuilding)

imp. & p. p. Mooted; p. pr. & vb. n. Mooting

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.

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.

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.

1. To argue or plead in a supposed case.

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

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.
2. A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.

   The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots.

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.