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ap·peal    Audio Help   (ə-pēl')  Pronunciation Key  n.   An earnest or urgent request, entreaty, or supplication. 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. Law The transfer of a case from a lower to a higher court for a new hearing. A case so transferred. A request for a new hearing. 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. To make an earnest or urgent request, as for help. To have recourse, as for corroboration; resort: I appeal to your sense of justice. Law To make or apply for an appeal. 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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ap·peal·ing    Audio Help   (ə-pē'lĭng)  Pronunciation Key  adj.   Attractive; inviting: an appealing manner; an appealing idea. ap·peal'ing·ly adv.

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appealing
adjective
1.	able to attract interest or draw favorable attention; "He added an appealing and memorable figure to popular American mythology"- Vincent Starrett; "an appealing sense of humor"; "the idea of having enough money to retire at fifty is very appealing" [ant: unappealing]
2.	(of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings; "the sympathetic characters in the play" [syn: sympathetic] [ant: unappealing]

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apˈpealing1 adjective
apˈpealing2 adjective
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Appealing

Ap*peal"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Appealed; p. pr. & vb. n. Appealing.] [OE. appelen, apelen, to appeal, accuse, OF. appeler, fr. L. appellare to approach, address, invoke, summon, call, name; akin to appellere to drive to; ad + pellere to drive. See Pulse, and cf. Peal.]

1. (Law) (a) To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court. (b) To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony.

2. To summon; to challenge. [Archaic]

Man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists. --Sir W. Scott.

3. To invoke. [Obs.] --Milton.

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