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noun

Moot n. (Written also mote)

A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; usually in composition; as, folk-moot.

A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice. "The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots."

Moot case, a case or question to be mooted; a disputable case; an unsettled question.

Moot court, a mock court, such as is held by students of law for practicing the conduct of law cases.

Moot point, a point or question to be debated; a doubtful question.

to make moot v. t. to render moot (2); to moot (3).

Mote n. (Obs., except in a few combinations or phrases.)

A meeting of persons for discussion; as, a wardmote in the city of London.

A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the management of affairs; as, a folkmote.

A place of meeting for discussion.

Mote bell, the bell rung to summon to a mote. (Obs.)

Mote n. The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See Mot, n., 3, and Mort.

Mote n. A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck. "The little motes in the sun do ever stir, though there be no wind." "We are motes in the midst of generations."

verb

Mot v. (sing. pres. ind. mot, mote, moot, pl. mot, mote, moote; pres. subj. mote; past moste) (Obs.) May; must; might. "He moot as well say one word as another" "The wordes mote be cousin to the deed." "Men moot (i.e., one only) give silver to the poore freres."

So mote it be, so be it; amen; a phrase in some rituals, as that of the Freemasons.

Mote v. See 1st Mot. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mote" Quotes from Famous Books

... question. The orb we know as the sun is centre of a system of worlds of which our earth is almost the most insignificant; yet great as is the sun when compared to the little bit of matter on which we dwell and have our being, it is itself but a mote, as it were, in the beam of the Universe. Formerly this sun was thought to be fixed and immovable, but the progress of science demonstrated that while the earth moves around this luminary, the latter is moving ...

— Marvels of Modern Science • Paul Severing

... other cheek—that sentence which Celsus found so vulgar—did no one smile, then, at the idea of anybody ever dreaming of such an act (Matt. 5:39)? Nor at the picture of the kind brother taking a mote from his brother's eye, with a whole baulk of timber in his own (Matt. 7:5)? Nor at the suggestion of doing two miles of forced labour when only one was demanded (Matt. 5:41)? Nor when he suggested that anxiety about ...

— The Jesus of History • T. R. Glover

... the little mote Which thou, and thou alone, Mark'st in his eye, and take away The beam ...

— Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life. • Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney

... subtle quality, in this small difference and that, new to me and strange. They were in no fashion I could name, and the simple costume the man wore suggested neither period nor country. It might, I thought, be the Happy Future, or Utopia, or the Land of Simple Dreams; an errant mote of memory, Henry James's phrase and story of "The Great Good Place," twinkled across my mind, and passed and ...

— In the Days of the Comet • H. G. Wells

... sped through the clouds. But just as the two aircraft had approached each other with the combined speed of both, so they separated. It seemed only a moment later that Bell dipped down below the clouds and the other plane was visible only as a swiftly receding mote in the sunlight. ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 • Various

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