appeal
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Etymology [edit]
From Old French apeler, from Latin appellō.
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Verb [edit]
appeal (third-person singular simple present appeals, present participle appealing, simple past and past participle appealed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To accuse (someone of something).
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:
- And there opynly Sir Mador appeled the quene of the deth of hys cousyn Sir Patryse.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.9:
- He gan that Ladie strongly to appele / Of many haynous crymes by her enured […].
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:
- (transitive, law, chiefly US) To apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior to a superior judge or court for the purpose of reexamination of for decision. --Tomlins. WP
- I appeal unto Cæsar. --Acts xxv. 11.
- (intransitive, law)
- (transitive) To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.; as, I appeal to all mankind for the truth of what is alleged. Hence: To call on one for aid; to make earnest request.
- (intransitive) To be attractive; as, that idea appeals to me means "I find the idea attractive".
- (intransitive, cricket) To ask an umpire for a decision of whether a batsman is out or not
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Translations [edit]
To apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior to a superior judge or court for the purpose of reexamination of for decision
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To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc
To be attractive
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To ask an umpire for a decision of whether a batsman is out or not
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Noun [edit]
appeal (plural appeals)
- (law) (a) An application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for reëxamination or review. (b) The mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected. (c) The right of appeal. (d) An accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public. (e) An accusation of a felon at common law by one of his accomplices, which accomplice was then called an approver. --Tomlins. --Bouvier.
- A summons to answer to a charge. --John Dryden.
- A call upon a person or an authority for proof or decision, in one's favor; reference to another as witness; a call for help or a favor; entreaty.
- A kind of appeal to the Deity, the author of wonders. -Francis Bacon.
- Resort to physical means; recourse.
- The power to attract or interest
- (cricket): the act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision of whether a batsman is out or not.
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Terms derived from appeal (noun)
Translations [edit]
application for the removal of a cause to a superior judge for reexamination
The power to attract or interest
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External links [edit]
- appeal at OneLook Dictionary Search
- appeal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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appeal
- appeal (power to attract or interest)
- sex appeal
