| 单词 | moot |
| 释义 | moot I. 1. a. b. 2. obsolete < but to end this moot — John Milton > 3. < elected by his classmates as prosecutor for the weekly moot > II. intransitive verb obsolete < mooted seven years in the Inns of Court — John Earle > transitive verb 1. archaic < to moot cases on the … ruin of the constitution — Edmund Burke > 2. a. < condemned such a step when it was first mooted a year before — Ethel Drus > < plans have been mooted for altering the general system of criminal procedure — Ernest Barker > b. < the question, so often mooted and never solved, of church unity — Commonweal > < the diction of poetry is now, as it has always been, a vigorously mooted point — J.L.Lowes > 3. < the case was mooted by unwillingness of the complainant to prosecute > III. 1. a. < it is a moot question what might have happened — O.D.Tolischus > < words of moot etymology — A.H.Marckwardt > < fill in gaps … and to check moot points — Leslie Spier > b. < with a moot point of law cleared up — John LaFarge > < extract … his views on the then moot subject of a second front — Henry Cassidy > 2. < thought that the Supreme Court would drop the case as a moot question, if the bill should become law — Time > < appeal does not become moot when the alien leaves the country, since the possibility of a criminal prosecution for attempted re-entry … remains — Harvard Law Review > 3. < moot court > < student participation in a moot … case — Bulletin of Information: Academy of Advanced Traffic > IV. dialect England |
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