"mooting" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English motinge, moting, from Old English mōtung, equivalent to moot + -ing.",
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        "plural"
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          "ref": "1806-1820, William Cobbett, Parliamentary History of England from the Norman conquest in 1066 to the Year 1803",
          "text": "In this he had been guided, not by the mootings of lawyers, not by the reveries of pamphlets, not by the conversation of coffee-houses, but by the opinions of minds that were fitter to direct than to co-operate with such minds as his."
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