appeal
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *pel-
Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *-né-der.
Proto-Italic *pelnōder.
Latin pellō
Latin appellāreder.
Old French apelerdeverb.
Old French apelder.
Middle English apel /appel
English appeal
From Middle English apel, appel (“formal accusation brought in court; a challenge to trial by combat; an appeal to a higher court or authority; plea (for mercy, protection, etc.); pealing (of bells)”) [and other forms], from Old French apel (“a call”) (modern French appel (“a call; an appeal”)), from apeler (“to call; to call out”), from Latin appellāre (“to address as, call by name; to drive, move to; to land or put ashore”), alternative form adpellāre, from ad- (prefix meaning ‘to; towards’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“at; to”)) + pellere (“to drive, impel, push; to hurl, propel; to banish, expel; to eject, thrust out”) + -āre, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to approach”), from *pel- (“to beat; to drive; to push”). Doublet of appel.
Inflected forms:
form: appeals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: appeale
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: appeall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: appeals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: appealing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: appealed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: appealed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I have an appeal against the lower court decision.
gloss: An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: Anciently an appeal lay for high treaſon. […] But it ſeems to be taken away by the ſt[atute] 1 H[enry] 4. 14. And now, if murder be made treaſon, an appeal does not lie.
gloss: A process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offence against the public; an accusation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: Ovld Iohn of Gaunt time honoured Lancaſter, / Haſt thou according to thy oath and bande / Brought hither Henrie Herford thy bolde ſonne, / Here to make good the boiſtrous late appeale, / Which then our leyſure would not let vs heare / Againſt the Duke of Norfolke, Thomas Moubray?
gloss: At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He made an appeal for volunteers to help at the festival.
As for the Caſting vp of the Eyes, and Lifting vp of the Hands, it is a kinde of Appeale to the Deity; Which is the Author, by Power, and Prouidence, of Strange Wonders.
All in their Turns accuſers, and accus'd: / Babel was never half ſo much confus'd. / What one can plead, the reſt can plead as well; / For amongſt equals lies no laſt appeal, / And all confeſs themſelves are fallible.
[W]hile they received the doctrine of the Trinity as an infinite mystery, far above their reason, they contended against that of transubstantiation as capable of being tried by human faculties, and as contradicted by an appeal to them.
[W]hen she lifted up / A face of sad appeal, and spake and said, / 'O Merlin, do you love me?' and again, / 'O Merlin, do you love me?' and once more, / 'Great Master, do you love me?' he was mute.
gloss: A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A resort to some physical means; a recourse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: A power to attract or interest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The shows’ viewer appeal is simple: they’re family-friendly, good-natured and easy to play along with.
It's blowing a gale and this holiday destination loses all its appeal in an instant in weather like this.
gloss: a use of a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
gloss: A summons to defend one's honour in a duel, or one's innocence in a trial by combat; a challenge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: Nor ſhall the Sacred Character of the King / Be urg'd, to ſhield me from thy bold appeal.
gloss: Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Dissatisfied with the judge’s ruling, she decided to appeal.
He was advised by his lawyer to appeal against his conviction.
For if I [Jesus] be an offender, or haue committed any thing worthy of death, I refuſe not to die: but if there be none of theſe things whereof theſe accuſe me, no man may deliuer me vnto them. I appeale vnto Ceſar.
gloss: To apply to a superior court or judge to review and overturn (a decision or order by an inferior court or judge).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The plaintiff appealed the decision to the appellate court.
The supreme court of Victoria has upheld a decision the transfer of juvenile detainees to an adult maximum security prison, where some of them spent Christmas Day, was unlawful. The [Daniel] Andrews government had appealed the original decision, which was handed down last week.
gloss: To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
pos: verb
tags: historical
transitive
examples: This ſhalle not ſo be ended ſaid ſyr Mador de la porte / for here haue I loſte a ful noble knyght of my blood / And therfore vpon this ſhame & deſpyte I wille be reuenged to the vtteraunce / and there openly ſir Mador appeled the quene of the dethe of his coſyn ſir patryſe /
We thanke you both, yet one but flatters vs, / As well appeareth by the cauſe you come, / Namely to appeale each other of high treaſon: […]
He gan that Ladie ſtrongly to appele / Of many haynous crymes by her enured, / And with ſharpe reaſons rang her ſuch a pele, / That thoſe, whom ſhe to pitie had allured, / He now t'abhorre and loath her perſon had procured.
gloss: Of a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.
pos: verb
tags: historical
transitive
gloss: Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).
pos: verb
tags: historical
transitive
gloss: To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: And we are as willing to appeal to the Scripture as you.
If I should sometimes have occasion, which will be but seldom, to appeal to the Scriptures in the original language, it will not be to impose a new sense upon the texts which I may find it to my purpose to produce, but to open and ascertain the meaning, where the original expressions may be more clear and determinate than those of our translation.
gloss: To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I appeal to all of you to help the orphans.
What is more, I call upon the greater part of you as witnesses to my statement, and I appeal to all of you who have ever listened to me talking (and there are a great many to whom this applies) to clear your neighbours’ minds on this point.
gloss: To have recourse or resort to some physical means.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Among the claimants were the mightiest sovereigns of the continent: there was little chance that they would submit to any arbitration but that of the sword; and it could not be hoped that, if they appealed to the sword, other potentates who had no pretension to any part of the disputed inheritance would long remain neutral.
gloss: To be attractive.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: That idea appeals to me.
The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.
gloss: To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.
pos: verb
tags: historical
transitive
examples: […] I have friends, I have followers—man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists; let him come in his plate and his mail, and all that can render cowardice bold; I have sent such a javelin as this through a stronger fence than three of their war shields!
Related words: appellant
appellate
appellee
appellor
approvement
Rehabilitation
Derived words: appeal court
appeals court
appeal to authority
appeal to emotion
appeal to motive
appeal to nature
counterappeal
court of appeal
curb appeal
sex appeal
street appeal
whip appeal
cross-appeal
appealable
appealer
appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober
appealing
appealingly
appealingness
appeal to the stone
celebrappeal
reappeal
unappealed
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: çağırış
lang: Bulgarian
word: апел
roman: apel
lang: Dutch
word: oproep
lang: Finnish
word: vetoomus
lang: Greek
word: προσφυγή
roman: prosfygí
lang: Greek
word: έκκληση
roman: ékklisi
lang: Hungarian
word: felhívás
lang: Hungarian
word: kérés
lang: Italian
word: appello
lang: Portuguese
word: apelo
lang: Russian
word: призы́в
roman: prizýv
lang: Russian
word: воззва́ние
roman: vozzvánije
lang: Spanish
word: postura
lang: Spanish
word: petición
lang: Spanish
word: apelación
lang: Swedish
word: appell
lang: Ukrainian
word: за́клик
roman: záklyk
lang: Ukrainian
word: зве́рнення
roman: zvérnennja
lang: Arabic
word: اِسْتَأْنَفَ
roman: istaʔnafa
lang: Armenian
word: բողոքարկել
roman: boġokʻarkel
lang: Catalan
word: apel·lar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 上訴 /上诉
roman: shàngsù
lang: Czech
word: odvolat se
lang: Dutch
word: in beroep gaan
lang: Dutch
word: in hoger beroep gaan
lang: Esperanto
word: apelacii
lang: Finnish
word: valittaa
lang: French
word: interjeter appel
lang: French
word: faire appel
lang: Galician
word: apelar
lang: Georgian
word: გასაჩივრება
roman: gasačivreba
lang: Georgian
word: აპელირება
roman: aṗelireba
lang: German
word: in Berufung gehen
lang: Greek
word: εφεσιβάλλω
roman: efesivállo
lang: Greek
word: κάνω έφεση
roman: káno éfesi
lang: Hindi
word: याचिका
roman: yācikā
lang: Hungarian
word: fellebbez
lang: Indonesian
word: banding
lang: Irish
word: achomharc
lang: Māori
word: pīra
lang: Polish
word: odwoływać się
lang: Polish
word: odwołać się
lang: Polish
word: apelować
lang: Polish
word: zaapelować
lang: Portuguese
word: recorrer
lang: Portuguese
word: apelar
lang: Romanian
word: apela
lang: Romanian
word: a face recurs
lang: Russian
word: обжа́ловать
roman: obžálovatʹ
lang: Russian
word: опротесто́вывать
roman: oprotestóvyvatʹ
lang: Russian
word: опротестова́ть
roman: oprotestovátʹ
lang: Russian
word: апелли́ровать
roman: apellírovatʹ
lang: Spanish
word: apelar
lang: Swedish
word: överklaga
lang: Turkish
word: temyiz etmek
lang: Ukrainian
word: оска́ржувати
roman: oskáržuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: оска́ржити
roman: oskáržyty
lang: Ukrainian
word: апелюва́ти
roman: apeljuváty
lang: Czech
word: apelovat
lang: Dutch
word: beroep doen op
lang: Dutch
word: appeleren
lang: Egyptian
word: spr:r-A2
roman: spr
lang: Finnish
word: pyytää
lang: Finnish
word: vedota
lang: French
word: appeler (à)
lang: Greek
word: επικαλούμαι
roman: epikaloúmai
lang: Hungarian
word: apellál
lang: Hungarian
word: fordul
lang: Hungarian
word: folyamodik
lang: Hungarian
word: felhív
lang: Hungarian
word: hivatkozik
lang: Italian
word: appellarsi
lang: Japanese
word: 訴える
roman: uttaeru
lang: Latin
word: obsecrō
lang: Persian
word: درخواست کردن
roman: darxwâst kardan
lang: Ukrainian
word: зверта́тися
roman: zvertátysja
lang: Ukrainian
word: зверну́тися
roman: zvernútysja