n. [ AS. mōt, gemōt, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ From Moot, v. ] A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots. Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 v. t. to render moot{ 2 }; to moot{ 3 }. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. 1. Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Mooted p. pr. & vb. n. Mooting. ] [ OE. moten, motien, AS. mōtan to meet or assemble for conversation, to discuss, dispute, fr. mōt, gemōt, a meeting, an assembly; akin to Icel. mōt, MHG. muoz. Cf. Meet to come together. ] 1. To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion. [ 1913 Webster ]

A problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less mooted, in this country. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court. [ 1913 Webster ]

First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy. Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

v. i. To argue or plead in a supposed case. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. See 1st Mot. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being mooted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A disputer of a mooted case. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (O. Eng. Law) A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; -- called, in Scotland, mute-hill. J. R. Green. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ AS. mōth&unr_;s. ] A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment. [ Obs. ] “The moot-hall of Herod.” Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]