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n. An earnest or urgent request, entreaty, or supplication.

n. 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.

n. Law The transfer of a case from a lower to a higher court for a new hearing.

n. Law A case so transferred.

n. Law A request for a new hearing.

n. The power of attracting or of arousing interest: a city with special appeal for museumgoers.

verb-intransitive. To make an earnest or urgent request, as for help.

verb-intransitive. To have recourse, as for corroboration; resort: I appeal to your sense of justice.

verb-intransitive. Law To make or apply for an appeal.

verb-intransitive. To be attractive or interesting: The idea didn't appeal to me.

v. Law To transfer or apply to transfer (a case) to a higher court for rehearing.

v. To accuse (someone of something).

v. 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. WP

v. 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.

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

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

n. (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.

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

n. 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.

n. Resort to physical means; recourse.

n. The power to attract or interest

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

v.

v. 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.

v. To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime.

v. To summon; to challenge.

v. To invoke.

v. To apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior to a superior judge or court for the purpose of reëxamination of for decision.

v. To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.. Hence: To call on one for aid; to make earnest request.

n.

n. An application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for reëxamination or review.

n. The mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected.

n. The right of appeal.

n. 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.

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

n. A summons to answer to a charge.

n. 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.

n. Resort to physical means; recourse.

To call; summon; challenge.

In law: To remove, as a cause, from a lower to a higher judge or court. See appeal, n., 2 .

Formerly, to charge with a crime before a tribunal; accuse; institute a criminal prosecution against for some heinous offense: with of before the offense charged: as, to appeal a person of felony.

. To address; offer up, as an appeal.

To call for aid, mercy, sympathy, or the like; make an earnest ontreaty, or have the effect of an entreaty.

In law, to refer to a superior judge or court for the decision of a cause depending; specifically, to refer a decision of a lower court or judge to a higher one, for reëxamination and revisal.

To refer to another person or authority for the decision of a question controverted, or for the corroboration of testimony or facts; in general, to refer to some tribunal explicitly mentioned or implied.

To have recourse; resort for proof, decision, or settlement: as, to appeal to force.

[In all senses, with to or unto before the tribunal whose judgment is asked, and from before that whose decision is rejected.]

n. An address or invocation; a call for sympathy, mercy, aid, or the like; a supplication; an entreaty: as, an appeal for help; an appeal for mercy.

n. A proceeding taken to reverse a decision by submitting it to the review of a higher authority: as, an appeal to the house from a decision of the chair. In law:

n. Sometimes used in the above general meaning, so as to include writs of error, certiorari, etc.

n. Strictly, the removal of a cause or suit from a lower to a higher tribunal, in order that the latter may revise, and, if it seems needful, reverse or amend, the decision of the former.

n. The mode of procedure by which such removal is effected.

n. The right of removal to a higher court.

n. Formerly, a vindictive action at the suit of a party injured when the supposed criminal had been previously acquitted on an indictment or pardoned.

n. A summons to answer to a charge; a challenge.

n. A call to another to sanction or witness; a reference to another for proof or decision: as, in an oath a person makes an appeal to the Deity for the truth of his declaration.

n. Resort or recourse for decision.

v. cite as an authority; resort to

n. attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates

v. take a court case to a higher court for review

n. request for a sum of money

n. earnest or urgent request

v. challenge (a decision)

v. be attractive to

n. (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

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

"III. v.11 (183,1) Upon his own appeal] To _appeal_, in Shakespeare, is to"

appealed    appealing    appeals   

cite    advert    refer    bring up    name    mention    challenge    take exception    proceeding    proceedings   

attraction    circuit court of appeals    commission of appeals    to appeal from the chair    approvement   

approvement   

beckon    captivate    bewitch    enamour    catch    enamor    entrance    fascinate    charm    beguile   

appeal to    sex appeal   

summon    challenge    invoke    accusation    entreaty    recourse   

Biel    Brasil    Camille    Cecile    Cele    Ciel    Emil    Emile    Keil    Kiel   

charm    desire    argument    sympathy    prayer    demand    inquiry    suggestion    protest    impulse