Moot

mōōt, v.t. to propose for discu ion: to discu : argue for practice.— adj. discu ed or debated.— n. in early English history, the meeting of the a embled freemen, or their representatives, to regulate the affairs of the village or tun, the hundred, or the kingdom— village- or town-moot , hundred-moot , folk-moot.— adj. Moot′able , that can be mooted or debated.— ns. Moot′-case , Moot′-point , a case, point, or question to be mooted or debated: an unsettled question; Moot′-court , -hall , a meeting or court for arguing supposed cases; Moot′-hill , a hill of meeting on which the moot was held. [A.S. mótian — mót , gemót , an a embly, akin to métan , to meet.]