2. Verb. (past of moot) ¹
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Definition of Mooted
1. moot [v] - See also: moot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mooted
Literary usage of Mooted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"charged that the secession of the New England States was mooted. Peace being soon
alter proclaimed, however, nothing resulted from the deliberations. ..."
2. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
""PEACEABLE SEPARATION" mooted BY THE ABOLITIONISTS OP 1845. [From the Same.]
THE levers of disunion ready to the hands of the Massachusetts abolitionists ..."
3. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French: With a Preliminary by Walter Scott (1827)
"Rf-suscitation of the Jacobin faction.—Increased Dissatisfactions in the Army.—The
Claims of'the Emigrants mooted in the Chamber of Delegates. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"Mansfield ' had once permitted a plaintiff to be examined with his own consent
This question was afterwards again mooted in the Court of Exchequer, ..."
5. The Missions and Missionaries of California by Zephyrin Engelhardt (1912)
"Spanish Policy Regarding Trade. —The Eighteen Missions.—Achievements in the
Spiritual and Temporal Order.—Reduction of Guards mooted. ..."
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