mootable

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The continual debates on 'mootable days,' and the incessant wranglings of the Temple cloisters, encouraged them to pay especial attention to such exercises.

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  1. Capable of being mooted; disputable; open, as a question. He declareth the matter, and argueth it by cases of law, much after the maner of a motable case. Sir T. More, Works, p. 944.

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  • The continual debates on 'mootable days,' and the incessant wranglings of the Temple cloisters, encouraged them to pay especial attention to such exercises. —  A Book About Lawyers
  • She had made poor use of her opportunities in this respect, but if to be honest, healthy, and wholesome is lady-like, then Dawn was one of the most vigorous and thoroughly lady-like folk I have known, and what really constitutes a lady is a mootable point based largely upon the point of view. —  Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
 

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