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▪ I. mooting, vbl. n.|ˈmuːtɪŋ|
[OE. mótung fem., f. mótian: see moot v.1 and -ing1.]
The action of moot v.1; an instance of this.
†1. Discussion, debate; in later use esp. forensic argument, legal contest or pleading.
a1000Aldh. Glosses 4522 in Napier O.E. Glosses 117/2 Colloquio, of motunge. c1205Lay. 30235 Þer wes þa motinge bituxe þan twam kinge. c1275Passion Our Lord 87 in O.E. Misc. 39 Hi nomen heom to rede at heore motynge. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. viii. 61 His pardoun In purgatorie is petit, I trouwe, Þat eny Meede of mene Men for Motynge receyueþ. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xvii. 79 It giffez him grace to ouercomme his enmys, if his cause be riȝtwys, bathe in were and in motyng. 1483Cath. Angl. 247/2 A Mutynge, causa. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) iii. vii. 143/1 Also pledynge, motynge, markettes, fayres,..& all the werkes that sholde lette a man from goddes seruyce. a1500Ratis Raving i. 978 For causs of mwtyne and of pled. a1529Skelton Col. Cloute 1075 Stande sure, and take good fotyng, And let be all your motyng, Your gasyng and your totyng. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. 39, I haue knowne diuers, that by familiar talkyng and moutyng together, haue come to right good learnyng. 1641Baker Apol. Laymen 43 We are no Patrons of Lay Elders: though wee give them place in Theological mootings. 1649Milton Eikon. v. Wks. 1851 III. 373 To which and other Law-tractats I referr the more Lawyerlie mooting of this point. 1848L. Hunt Town iii. 138 Young men, brought up in the mooting of points.
†b. A deliberative meeting or body. Obs.
c1275Passion of Our Lord 178 in O.E. Misc. 42 Nedde he bute þet word iseyd iudas him com þrynge Mid Gyues and myd phariseus from heore motynge. c1290Beket 753 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 128 In þe castel sat þe motinge of þis tyraunz ech-on.
2. spec. Discussion of imaginary cases at law, as practised by students of the Inns of Court.
16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. iv. ii. (Arb.) 52, I thinke I do remember this also at a mooting in our Temple. 1636B. Jonson Discov., Eloquentia, There is a difference betweene Mooting, and Pleading, betweene Fencing, and Fighting. 1737J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. iii. x. (ed. 33) 241 There are no Mootings or Readings in the Inns of Court or Chancery at this Day. 1880Encycl. Brit. XIII. 89/1 The society of Gray's Inn has revived mootings..with some success.
attrib.1634W. Cartwright Ordinary iii. v. Song, A Mooting Night brings wholsome smiles When John an Okes, and John a Stiles, Doe greaze the Lawyers Satin.
3. The action of propounding for discussion.
1858Froude Hist. Eng. III. 509 Anne herself—who, after the slight agitation which the first mooting of the matter naturally produced, had acquiesced in everything which was proposed to her,—received this intimation with placidity.
▪ II. mooting, ppl. a.|ˈmuːtɪŋ|
[f. moot v.1 + -ing2.]
Taking part in a ‘moot’ of an Inn of Court.
1817J. Gilchrist Intell. Patrimony 131 Probably neither the one nor the other understands what he is writing about more than a big school-boy or mooting babbler.
▪ III. mooting
obs. form of moulting. |