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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.
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Appeal
is always a great word to know.
So is settle. Does it mean:
| to secure property or title to a person by formal or legal process; to terminate legal proceedings by mutual consent of the parties |
| a secret understanding between two or more persons to gain something illegally, to defraud another, or to appear as adversaries though in agreement |
verb (used with object)
Idiom10.
Law.
a.
to apply for review of (a case) to a higher tribunal.
b.
Obsolete. to charge with a crime before a tribunal.
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Origin:
1250–1300; (v.) Middle English a(p)pelen < Anglo-French, Old French a(p)peler < Latin appellāre to speak to, address, equivalent to ap- ap-1 + -pellāre, iterative stem of pellere to push, beat against; (noun) Middle English ap(p)el < Anglo-French, Old French apel, noun derivative of ap(p)eler
1250–1300; (v.) Middle English a(p)pelen < Anglo-French, Old French a(p)peler < Latin appellāre to speak to, address, equivalent to ap- ap-1 + -pellāre, iterative stem of pellere to push, beat against; (noun) Middle English ap(p)el < Anglo-French, Old French apel, noun derivative of ap(p)eler
Related forms
ap·peal·a·bil·i·ty, noun
ap·peal·a·ble, adjective
ap·peal·er, noun
non·ap·peal·a·bil·i·ty, noun
non·ap·peal·a·ble, adjective
EXPANDSynonyms
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.
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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Example Sentences
- Ordinarily, the prisoner whose appeal is being heard is present in court.
- The Rockies have unique appeal for hikers, climbers, and bikers.
- This isn't going to appeal to everybody.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
appeal
c.1300 (n.), early 14c. (v.), originally in legal sense of "calling" to a higher judge or court, from Anglo-Fr. apeler "to call upon, accuse," from O.Fr. apeler (11c., Mod.Fr. appeler), from L. appellare "to accost, address, appeal to, summon, name," iterative of appellere "to prepare," from ad- "to"
EXPAND+ 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."
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Appeal definition
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.
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