| 单词 | moot hall | 
| 释义 | moot halln.  A council chamber; a town hall; a courtroom, a court of justice; (Law) †a hall where moot cases are discussed (obsolete).Now historical, but still occurring in the names of particular buildings in some English towns. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > 			[noun]		 > place of > hall, house, or room moot-houseOE moot hall1305 council house1393 chamber1428 council-chamberc1515 session-house1599 camera1658 council-hall1683 council-room1774 society > law > legal profession > 			[noun]		 > Inns of Court > part where students practise moot hall1684 moot court1788 1305    Manorial Documents in  Mod. Philol. 		(1936)	 34 42 (MED)  				Motehalle. c1330    in  T. Wright Polit. Songs Eng. 		(1839)	 336 (MED)  				Justises, shirreves, meires, baillifs..ne leven..for no sklaundre, And maken the mot-halle at hom in here chaumbre, wid wouh. c1384    Bible 		(Wycliffite, E.V.)	 		(Douce 369(2))	 		(1850)	 Deeds xxiii. 35  				He comaundide him..to be kept in the pretorie, or moote halle, of Heroude. a1425    J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. 		(1871)	 II. 123  				Þei ledden Jesus..in to þe mut-halle. c1450    Alphabet of Tales 		(1905)	 II. 299 (MED)  				Saynt Leonard apperid in myddest of þe mute-hall. a1500    in  T. Wright  & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. 		(1884)	 I. 729/22  				Hoc pretorium, a moythalle. 1526    Pylgrimage of Perfection 		(de Worde)	 f. 253  				He was brought forth agayn of the mote hall, & presented to the iewes. 1566    T. Drant tr.  Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Hvjv  				The scribes pray me, for maine affayres To haste the moute hal fro. c1600    Hist. & Life James VI 		(1825)	 369  				The watche-bell of the mute-hall (whilk is the common place of justice in Carlisle) was also rung for harmonie. 1648    Siege of Colchester in  Antiquary Apr. 		(1880)	 168  				Fairfax..appointed a Council of War which met at the Moot Hall. 1677    W. Nicolson Gloss. Cumbrian Dial. in  Trans. Royal Soc. Lit. 		(1870)	 9 316  				Moothall, guildhall. 1684    T. Manley Νομοθετης: Cowell's Interpreter 		(ed. 2)	 at Moot  				The places where Moot-Cases were argued, was anciently called a Moot-hall. 1794    W. Hutchinson Hist. Cumberland I. 253  				The hall in which the assizes are held at Carlisle, still goes by the name of the mote, or moot-hall. 1865    Reader 5 Aug. 144  				[Hexham] A picturesque moot-hall and prison in one. 1905    Athenæum 23 Sept. 402/2  				Kindly coastguards had stretched flags from the old Moot Hall [in Aldeburgh] to the houses opposite. 1988    Holiday Which? Jan. 14/1  				Keswick is..a sturdy market town with a..moot hall in the middle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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