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Appeal   /əpˈil/   Listen
Appeal

noun
1.
Earnest or urgent request.  Synonyms: entreaty, prayer.  "An appeal for help" , "An appeal to the public to keep calm"
2.
Attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates.  Synonyms: appealingness, charm.
3.
(law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial.
4.
Request for a sum of money.  Synonyms: collection, ingathering, solicitation.
verb
(past & past part. appealed; pres. part. appealing)
1.
Take a court case to a higher court for review.
2.
Request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection.  Synonym: invoke.  "Invoke God in times of trouble"
3.
Be attractive to.  Synonym: attract.  "The beautiful garden attracted many people"
4.
Challenge (a decision).
5.
Cite as an authority; resort to.  Synonym: invoke.  "I appealed to the law of 1900" , "She invoked an ancient law"



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"Appeal" Quotes from Famous Books



... definition of species may appear to be, we confidently appeal to all practical naturalists, whether zoologists, botanists, or palaeontologists, to say if, in the vast majority of cases, they know, or mean to affirm, anything more of the group of animals or plants they so denominate than what has ...
— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley

... by them, but only by a synod of his own order; while the superintendent in the Scottish Church was merely the permanent Moderator of Synod, and was bound to give effect to the decision of the majority, or to carry it by appeal before a higher court; and he was not only liable to be judged and punished for neglect of duty and for personal misconduct by the General Assembly, but was also liable to be charged with such offences before his own synod, and to be judged and punished by ...
— The Scottish Reformation - Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics • Alexander F. Mitchell

... descended on a Ngunie sub-factory, and looted it. The wife of the black trading agent made a gallant resistance, her husband was away on a trading expedition, but the chief had her seized and beaten, and thrown into the river. An appeal was made to the Doctor then Administrator of the Ogowe, a powerful and helpful official, and he soon came up with the little canoniere, taking Mr. Cockshut with him and fully vindicated the honour of the French flag, under ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley

... responds to the appeal; giving his experience, along with it his suspicions and conjectures; not simply as a witness, but more like a counsel in the case. It needs not to say, he is against the accused, in his statement ...
— The Death Shot - A Story Retold • Mayne Reid

... refusal of kindness. Athisl, when he saw him reclining close to his mother at the banquet, taunted them both with wantonness, declaring that it was an impure intercourse of brother and sister. Rolf repelled the charge against his honour by an appeal to the closest of natural bonds, and answered, that it was honourable for a son to embrace a beloved mother. Also, when the feasters asked him what kind of courage he set above all others, he named ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")


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