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Good riddens – and it's a moote point anyway: McCain will take the presidency in November cuz he's the most qualified for the job.
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And soothly, leeve brother, this is al. Heere in this prisoun moote we endure,
The Canterbury Tales 2006
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Thei haue neither moote halles, ne vniuersities, whose disagreable doctrine more leaning to apisshe arte, then natural reason and experience, neuer bringeth anye staye, or certeinte of thinges.
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[62] To _moote_ a terme vsed in the innes of the court; it is the handling of a case, as in the Vniuersitie their disputations, &c. So _Minshew_, who supposes it to be derived from the French, _mot, verbum, quasi verba facere, aut sermonem de aliqua re habere_.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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Thei haue neither moote halles, ne vniuersities, whose disagreable doctrine more leaning to apisshe arte, then natural reason and experience, neuer bringeth anye staye, or certeinte of thinges.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Promuntorium hoc diOom ab antro Zeryntbio fico in eodem moote.
Pomponii Melae De situ orbis libri tres: cum Petri Joannis Olivarii Valentini, viri in ... Pomponius Mela , Ermolao Barbaro, C . Julius Solinus 1782
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