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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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coun⋅try

  [kuhn-tree] noun, plural -tries, adjective
–noun
1. a state or nation: What European countries have you visited?
2. the territory of a nation.
3. the people of a district, state, or nation: The whole country backed the president in his decision.
4. the land of one's birth or citizenship.
5. rural districts, including farmland, parkland, and other sparsely populated areas, as opposed to cities or towns: Many city dwellers like to spend their vacations in the country.
6. any considerable territory demarcated by topographical conditions, by a distinctive population, etc.: mountainous country; the Amish country of Pennsylvania.
7. a tract of land considered apart from any geographical or political limits; region; district.
8. the public.
9. Law. the public at large, as represented by a jury.
10. country music.
–adjective
11. of, from, or characteristic of the country; rural: a winding country road.
12. of, pertaining to, or associated with country music: That Nashville station plays country records all day long.
13. rude; unpolished; rustic: country manners.
14. of, from, or pertaining to a particular country.
15. Obsolete. of one's own country.
—Idioms
16. go to the country, British. to dissolve a Parliament that has cast a majority vote disagreeing with the prime minister and cabinet and to call for the election of a new House of Commons. Also, appeal to the country.
17. put oneself upon the or one's country, Law. to present one's cause formally before a jury.
Origin:
1200–50; ME cuntree < AF, OF < VL *(regiō) contrāta terrain opposite the viewer, equiv. to L contr(ā) counter 3 + -āta, fem. of -ātus -ate 1 ; cf. G Gegend region, deriv. of gegen against
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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."

country 
1234, from O.Fr. cuntree, from V.L. *(terra) contrata "(land) lying opposite," or "(land) spread before one," from L. contra "opposite." To Eng. as "district," narrowed 1526 to rural areas, as opposed to cities. Replaced O.E. land. First record of countryside is 1621. Countrified is from 1653. First record of country-and-western music style is from 1959. Country club first recorded 1894.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

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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