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ap⋅peal

  [uh-peel]
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–noun
1. an earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc.; entreaty; petition; plea.
2. a request or reference to some person or authority for a decision, corroboration, judgment, etc.
3. Law.
a. an application or proceeding for review by a higher tribunal.
b. (in a legislative body or assembly) a formal question as to the correctness of a ruling by a presiding officer.
c. Obsolete. a formal charge or accusation.
4. the power or ability to attract, interest, amuse, or stimulate the mind or emotions: The game has lost its appeal.
5. Obsolete. a summons or challenge.
–verb (used without object)
6. to ask for aid, support, mercy, sympathy, or the like; make an earnest entreaty: The college appealed to its alumni for funds.
7. Law. to apply for review of a case or particular issue to a higher tribunal.
8. to have need of or ask for proof, a decision, corroboration, etc.
9. to be especially attractive, pleasing, interesting, or enjoyable: The red hat appeals to me.
–verb (used with object)
10. Law.
a. to apply for review of (a case) to a higher tribunal.
b. Obsolete. to charge with a crime before a tribunal.
—Idiom
11. appeal to the country, British. country (def. 16).
Origin:
1250–1300; (v.) ME a(p)pelen < AF, OF a(p)peler < L appellāre to speak to, address, equiv. to ap- ap- 1 + -pellāre, iterative s. of pellere to push, beat against; (n.) ME ap(p)el < AF, OF apel, n. deriv. of ap(p)eler

Related forms:
ap⋅peal⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
ap⋅peal⋅a⋅ble, adjective
ap⋅peal⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. prayer, supplication, invocation. 2. suit, solicitation. 4. attraction. 6. request, ask. Appeal, entreat, petition, supplicate mean to ask for something wished for or needed. Appeal and petition may concern groups and formal or public requests. Entreat and supplicate are usually more personal and urgent. To appeal is to ask earnestly for help or support, on grounds of reason, justice, common humanity, etc.: to appeal for contributions to a cause. To petition is to ask by written request, by prayer, or the like, that something be granted: to petition for more playgrounds. Entreat suggests pleading: The captured knight entreated the king not to punish him. To supplicate is to beg humbly, usually from a superior, powerful, or stern (official) person: to supplicate that the lives of prisoners be spared.
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ap·peal   (ə-pēl')   
n.  

  1. An earnest or urgent request, entreaty, or supplication.

  2. A resort to a higher authority or greater power, as for sanction, corroboration, or a decision: an appeal to reason; an appeal to her listener's sympathy.

  3. Law

    1. The transfer of a case from a lower to a higher court for a new hearing.

    2. A case so transferred.

    3. A request for a new hearing.

  4. The power of attracting or of arousing interest: a city with special appeal for museumgoers.

v.   ap·pealed, ap·peal·ing, ap·peals

v.   intr.

  1. To make an earnest or urgent request, as for help.

  2. To have recourse, as for corroboration; resort: I appeal to your sense of justice.

  3. Law To make or apply for an appeal.

  4. To be attractive or interesting: The idea didn't appeal to me.

v.   tr. Law
To transfer or apply to transfer (a case) to a higher court for rehearing.

[Middle English apel, from Old French, from apeler, to appeal, from Latin appellāre, to entreat; see pel-5 in Indo-European roots.]
ap·peal'a·bil'i·ty n., ap·peal'a·ble adj., ap·peal'er n.
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Word Origin & History

appeal 
1297 (n.), 1330 (v.), originally in legal sense of "calling" to a higher judge or court, from Anglo-Fr. apeler "to call upon, accuse," from L. appellare "to accost, address, appeal to, summon, name," iterative of appellere "to prepare," from ad- "to" + pellere "to beat, drive." Probably a Roman metaphoric extension of a nautical term for "driving a ship toward a particular landing." Popular modern meaning "to be attractive or pleasing" is quite recent, attested from 1907 (appealing in this sense is from 1891), from the notion of "to address oneself in expectation of a sympathetic response."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: 1ap·peal
Pronunciation: &-'pEl
Function: noun
Etymology: Old French apel, from apeler to call, accuse, appeal, from Latin appellare
: a proceeding in which a case is brought before a higher court for review of a lower court's judgment for the purpose of convincing the higher court that the lower court's judgment was incorrect; also : a proceeding for the review of an agency decision at a higher level within the agency or in a court —see also AFFIRM —compare CERTIORARI, NEW TRIAL, REHEARING
NOTE: The scope of an appeal is limited. The higher court will review only matters that were objected to or argued in the lower court during the trial. No new evidence can be presented on appeal. —ap·peal·abil·i·ty /&-"pE-l&-'bi-l&-tE/ noun —ap·peal·able /&-'pE-l&-b&l/ adjective

Main Entry: 2appeal
Function: transitive verb
: to take (a lower court's decision) before a higher court for review : undertake an appeal of (a case) intransitive verb : to take a lower court's decision to a higher court for review
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Bible Dictionary

Appeal

a reference of any case from an inferior to a superior court. Moses established in the wilderness a series of judicatories such that appeals could be made from a lower to a higher (Ex. 18:13-26.) Under the Roman law the most remarkable case of appeal is that of Paul from the tribunal of Festus at Caesarea to that of the emperor at Rome (Acts 25:11, 12, 21, 25). Paul availed himself of the privilege of a Roman citizen in this matter.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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