单词 | mooter |
释义 | mootern.1 1. A speaker; a person who argues or engages in discussion; a lawyer who argues cases in a court of justice, a pleader. Now also: a person, esp. a law student, who discusses a moot case. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > [noun] > person engaged in mooterOE arguer1377 discusser?1546 canvasser1599 argumentator1635 discursist1645 motionist1650 tongue-fencer1675 argufier1805 discussionist1833 discutant1847 discussant1855 ventilator1891 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > [noun] > one who pleads pleader?a1300 mooterc1450 oratress1562 case-putter1680 OE Harley Gloss. (1966) 100 Contionator .i. locutor, motere uel maþelere. c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (1973) 724 Maxence..bed bringen biforen him þeos, modi moteres. 1327 Exchequer Subsidy Roll in Coll. Hist. Staffs. (1886) VII. 197 (MED) Willelmus le Motere. c1425 Prose Versions New Test.: Deeds (Cambr.) (1904) xxiv. 1 Tertullo, an orator, þat es, a motar or aduoket. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 185 Our mootiere [Fr. nostre machiere..et nostre machecriere] thou art, and oure sergeantesse we [etc.]. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 83 v A Mutere, actor, aduocatus. c1480 (a1400) St. John Baptist 968 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 251 Þis alisander can so lere, þat he wes a gud mutere. a1500 Ratis Raving 990 Trow weil, It mone be swa, ore vere, Fra þow be mwter at the bare. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Declamateur, a Declaimer, a moocer [read mooter]. 1637 Abp. J. Williams Holy Table 72 For the Case must be taken as it is in the Letter..not as this poore Mooter doth reasonably (that is, against all the Laws of reasoning) presume it. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Moot-men or Mooters, Students at Law, who argue Reader's Cases. 1827 Mirror 2 151/2 An expounder of the laws, an arbiter of quibble mooters. 1986 P. Dobson & B. Fitzpatrick ‘Observer’ Bk. Moots 3 The mooters..are required to act as Senior and Junior Counsel, arguing for and against grounds of appeal set out in the moot problem. 2. A person who raises a matter for discussion. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > suggestion, proposal > [noun] > one who suggests > as matter for consideration putter forth1492 preferrer1536 proposer1566 raiser-up1580 broacher1587 mooter1799 vendera1817 1799 W. Godwin Let. 27 Jan. in Thoughts occasioned by Dr. Parr's Spital Serm. 13 Who are the speculators whom you designate..‘mooters of fatal controversies’ [paraphrase of original]. 1844 T. Hood On a Certain Locality 2 Of public changes, good or ill, I seldom lead the mooters. 1891 Q. Rev. Oct. 322 One Professor Beddoes was its mooter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mootern.2 Shipbuilding. Obsolete. 1. A person who shapes treenails by means of a moot. ΚΠ 1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor Mooter, is the Person who (after the Tree-Nails which are received into Store, rough from the Merchant) makes them smooth, and of proper Sizes. 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Mooter, or Tree-Nail Mooter, a name given to the person who turns the tree-nails by the assistance of a moot. 2. A treenail or other kind of bolt or pin. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > pin or peg > wooden treenail1295 trunnion1627 mooter1867 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 484 Mooter, a spike, bolt, treenail. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1OEn.21750 |
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