APPEAL • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Appeal

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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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... he dreaded so horribly, for Perrin took him by the arm and did not leave him till he had landed him in the sick room. Then the fisherman sought out Le Mierre, and the coward and scoundrel tried to hold his own. But Perrin's threats of appeal to the Royal Court awed him into a promise to give out money to pay for the expenses of his wife's illness. Corbet, himself utterly fearless of disease, frightened the drunkard into further dread of the house: and Ellenor had it ...

— Where Deep Seas Moan • E. Gallienne-Robin

... the state of this Age of this our day, and to that far Age of which I do tell. But development never to make the Human other than the Human; for the development to have limits peculiar to the Human. And surely, it doth appeal to me, that the development of Man doth lie between two points, that be not wondrous wide apart; and Man to have power that he arrive very speedy from one unto the other, and likewise that he go back so quick, or even the more hasty. Yet, even did it be ever proved that Man once to be a fish, I ...

— The Night Land • William Hope Hodgson

... from the history of some great and splendid life, or illuminating hint upon the beauties of liturgy and symbolism. They, and a hundred other things, are all gathered up and introduced to us in Ruskin's books; and we are shown them from the exact standpoint from which they are most likely to appeal to us, and be of use. There never was a great world made so easy and pleasant of entrance for the adventuring traveller; you have only ...

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... obedience of the king our sovereign. I have informed the governor in regard to this, and since I do not expect any relief from his hand, I entreat your Reverence to procure it from the royal piety with the memorial and documents adjoined. If not we shall have to appeal to God, for such troubles are of very frequent occurrence in various parts of these islands. We never cease to wonder when we see some Spaniards here who are so destitute of Christian considerations, and so clothed in greed, ...

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... refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right which the majority has of commanding, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind. It has been asserted that a people can never entirely outstep the boundaries of justice and of reason in those affairs which are more peculiarly its own; and that consequently full power may fearlessly be given to the majority ...

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