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Definition of Mootable
1. a. Capable of being mooted.
Definition of Mootable
1. Adjective. Capable of being mooted. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mootable
1. able to be mooted [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mootable
Literary usage of Mootable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1906)
"... of Robert of Gloucester is, as has been allowed, a moot and mootable point.
I used to think them more widely separated than I do now. ..."
2. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1881)
"positively asserted, leaves it a mootable question. CHAS. W. COLEMAN, JR. THE BLUE
BELL TAVERN [IV. 460 ; V. 142 ; VI. 64, 223, 300 ; VII. ..."
3. The Library Companion, Or, The Young Man's Guide, and the Old Man's Comfort by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1825)
"But, surely this was a mootable point; and no living reputation could be tarnished
by the discussion. If the Father and the Brother of Lucretia were really ..."
4. A Book about Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1867)
"The continual debates on " mootable days," and the incessant wranglings of the
Temple cloisters, encouraged them to pay especial attention to such exercises ..."
5. Book on the Physician Himself: And Things that Concern His Reputation and by Daniel Webster Cathell (1908)
"... or conclude differently from his neighbor on some mootable point, or might be
differing in opinion from some captious rival, or unprincipled competitor, ..."
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