remootv.
/ˌriːˈmuːt/, U.S. /riˈmut/ rare.
transitive. To moot (a question, idea, etc.) again.
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the mind > attention and judgement > answer > answer [verb (transitive)]
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to get back to1963
1676 Doctr. of Devils 172 To that which is said by the Debater..It is remooted.
1857 Law Mag. & Law Rev. 3 364 The moment is not à propos for re-mooting the much agitated question touching the Appellate Jurisdiction of our Upper House.
1868 S. G. Grady Law of Inheritance vii. 156 The subject is involved in difficulty, and as it probably will be remooted, we think legislative action ought to be taken to set the question at rest.
1996 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 22 Dec. (Sport section) 18 The idea of a sporting academy was first mooted in 1995 by the..Prime Minister,..who promptly forgot about it and re-mooted it in 1996.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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