Definitions for appeal
əˈpilap·peal

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. entreaty, prayer, appealnoun

   earnest or urgent request

   "an entreaty to stop the fighting"; "an appeal for help"; "an appeal to the public to keep calm"

2. appeal, appealingness, charmnoun

   attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates

   "his smile was part of his appeal to her"

3. appealnoun

   (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

   "their appeal was denied in the superior court"

4. solicitation, appeal, collection, ingatheringverb

   request for a sum of money

   "an appeal to raise money for starving children"

5. appealverb

   take a court case to a higher court for review

   "He was found guilty but appealed immediately"

6. appeal, invokeverb

   request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection

   "appeal to somebody for help"; "Invoke God in times of trouble"

7. attract, appealverb

   be attractive to

   "The idea of a vacation appeals to me"; "The beautiful garden attracted many people"

8. appealverb

   challenge (a decision)

   "She appealed the verdict"

9. invoke, appealverb

   cite as an authority; resort to

   "He invoked the law that would save him"; "I appealed to the law of 1900"; "She invoked an ancient law"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. appealnoun

   (a) An application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for reëxamination or review. (b) The mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected. (c) The right of appeal. (d) An accusation; 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 offense against the public. (e) An accusation of a felon at common law by one of his accomplices, which accomplice was then called an approver. --Tomlins. --Bouvier.

2. appealnoun

   A summons to answer to a charge. --John Dryden.

3. appealnoun

   A call upon a person or an authority for proof or decision, in one's favor; reference to another as witness; a call for help or a favor; entreaty.

   A kind of appeal to the Deity, the author of wonders. -Francis Bacon.

4. appealnoun

   Resort to physical means; recourse.

5. appealnoun

   The power to attract or interest

6. appealnoun

   the act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision of whether a batsman is out or not.

7. appealverb

   To accuse (someone of something).

8. appealverb

   To apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior to a superior judge or court for the purpose of reexamination of for decision. --Tomlins.

9. appealverb

   To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.; as, I appeal to all mankind for the truth of what is alleged. Hence: To call on one for aid; to make earnest request.

10. appealverb

    To be attractive; as, that idea appeals to me means "I find the idea attractive".

11. appealverb

    To ask an umpire for a decision of whether a batsman is out or not

12. Etymology: From apeler, from appello.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Appealnoun

   1.An appeal is a provocation from an inferior to a superior judge, whereby the jurisdiction of the inferior judge is for a while suspended, in respect of the cause; the cognizance being devolved to the superior judge. John Ayliffe Parergon.

   Etymology: from the verb To appeal.

   This ring
   Deliver them, and your appeal to us
   There make before them. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   Our reason prompts us to a future state,
   The last appeal from fortune and from fate,
   Where God’s all righteous ways will be declar’d. Dryden.

   There are distributers of justice, from whom there lies an appeal to the prince. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

   2. In the common law.An accusation; which is a lawful declaration of another man’s crime before a competent judge, by one that sets his name to the declaration, and undertakes to prove it, upon the penalty that may ensue of the contrary; more commonly used for the private accusation of a murderer, by a party who had interest in the party murdered, and of any felon, by one of his accomplices in the fact. John Cowell

   The duke’s unjust,
   Thus to retort your manifest appeal,
   And put your trial in the villain’s mouth,
   Which here you come to accuse. William Shakespeare, M. Wives of Windsor.

   Hast thou, according to thy oath and bond,
   Brought hither Henry Hereford, thy bold son,
   Here to make good the boist’rous late appeal
   Against the duke of Norfolk? William Shakespeare.

   3. A summons to answer a charge.

   Nor shall the sacred character of king
   Be urg’d to shield me from thy bold appeal,
   If I have injur’d thee, that makes us equal. John Dryden, Don. Seb.

   4. A call upon any as witness.

   The casting up of the eyes, and lifting up of the hands, is a kind of appeal to the Deity, the authour of wonders. Francis Bacon.

2. To APPEALverb

   Etymology: appello, Lat.

   1. To transfer a cause from one to another; with the particles to and from.

   From the ordinary therefore they appeal to themselves. Richard Hooker.

   2. To refer to another as judge.

   Force, or a declared design of force, upon the person of another, where there is no common superior on earth to appeal to for relief, is the state of war; and it is the want of such an appeal gives a man the right of war, even against an aggressor, though he be in society and a fellow subject. John Locke.

   They knew no foe, but in the open field,
   And to their cause and to the gods appealed. George Stepney.

   3. To call another as witness.

   Whether this, that the soul always thinks, be a self-evident proposition, I appeal to mankind. John Locke.

   4. To charge with a crime; to accuse.

   One but flatters us,
   As well appeareth by the cause you come,
   Namely, t’ appeal each other of high treason. William Shakespeare, Rich. II.

Wikipedia(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Appeal

   In law, an appeal is the process in which cases are reviewed by a higher authority, where parties request a formal change to an official decision. Appeals function both as a process for error correction as well as a process of clarifying and interpreting law. Although appellate courts have existed for thousands of years, common law countries did not incorporate an affirmative right to appeal into their jurisprudence until the 19th century.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Appealverb

   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

2. Appealverb

   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

3. Appealverb

   to summon; to challenge

4. Appealverb

   to invoke

5. Appealverb

   to apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior to a superior judge or court for the purpose of reexamination of for decision

6. Appealverb

   to call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.; as, I appeal to all mankind for the truth of what is alleged. Hence: To call on one for aid; to make earnest request

7. Appealverb

   an application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for reexamination or review

8. Appealverb

   the mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected

9. Appealverb

   the right of appeal

10. Appealverb

    an accusation; 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 offense against the public

11. Appealverb

    an accusation of a felon at common law by one of his accomplices, which accomplice was then called an approver. See Approvement

12. Appealverb

    a summons to answer to a charge

13. Appealverb

    a call upon a person or an authority for proof or decision, in one's favor; reference to another as witness; a call for help or a favor; entreaty

14. Appealverb

    resort to physical means; recourse

15. Etymology: [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.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Appeal

   ap-pēl′, v.i. to call upon, have recourse to (with to): to refer (to a witness or superior authority): make supplication or earnest request to a person for a thing: to resort for verification or proof to some principle or person.—v.t. to remove a cause (to another court).—n. act of appealing: a supplication: removal of a cause to a higher tribunal.—adjs. Appeal′able; Appeal′ing, relating to appeals.—adv. Appeal′ingly.—n. Appeal′ingness. [O. Fr. apeler—appellāre, -ātum, to address, call by name; also to appeal to, impeach.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. appeal

   See Appendix, Articles of War, 29, 30.

Matched Categories

1. • Attractiveness
   • Challenge
   • Law
   • Proceeding
   • Request

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'appeal' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1069

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'appeal' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2957

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'appeal' in Nouns Frequency: #413

4. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'appeal' in Verbs Frequency: #477

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of appeal in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of appeal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of appeal in a Sentence

1. Mike Brodo:

   I think that's kind of the core mission here is kind of trying to appeal to people our age, getting them involved in politics, i think our biggest demographic that we're appealing to is actually people that are not political junkies like Mike Brodo, that are always talking about it. It's the people that care about politics to the level that any citizen should, but are just so turned off because of how polarized and disgusting a lot of the discourse is today.

2. Prince Ali:

   I am very, very worried that candidates can use that for political moving without having a real, proper, healthy, studied debate ; honestly, we can not afford to make mistakes that have happened in the past, i do have this feeling that it is to appeal to people just for the sake of votes.

3. Sartaj Aziz:

   Even if, you know, for political reasons or short-term popularity somebody espouses these ideas to appeal to one segment of the population, the broad spectrum of America... will not buy this.

4. Al Sharpton:

   I thought it was a good speech, now, in this particular case, dealing with my friend and brother Joe, if he was trying to get votes, it was not the vote-getting speech … I'm a minister. Either you get up, and you try to persuade people of their sins and appeal to their better angels. But when they come to church, and they still have the jug of whiskey up under the pew, you say, you’re going to hell. I think he gave a ‘you’re going to hell’ speech.

5. The State Department:

   To be clear: Kremlin approval of this appeal would amount to the Russian government’s wholesale rejection of its commitments under the Minsk agreements, enactment of this resolution would further undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, constitute a gross violation of international law, call into further question Russia’s stated commitment to continue to engage in diplomacy to achieve a peaceful resolution of this crisis.

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