Word Finder - appeal

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An application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for re-examination or review.

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The mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected.

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The right of appeal.

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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.

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

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A summons to answer to a charge.

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A call to a person or an authority for help, proof or a decision; entreaty.

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He made an appeal for volunteers to help at the festival.

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Resort to physical means; recourse.

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Power to attract or interest.

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A call to or use of a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.

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To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.

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To call on (someone) for aid

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I appeal to all of you to help the orphans.

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(informal elsewhere) To apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior to a superior judge or court for the purpose of reexamination or for decision.

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To be attractive.

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That idea appeals to me.

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To ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that" or "Howzat".

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To accuse (someone of something).

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To summon; to challenge.

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To invoke (used with to).

No appeal of yours will work in his favor.

There is an appeal hearing which you can go to.

The United States has received from the Greek government an urgent appeal for financial and economic assistance.

Will you appeal against this ruling?

You can have your appeal heard in private if you want to.

This appeal produced a painful impression.

He lost an appeal against conviction at the court of appeal in July.

Seems like it would appeal to your cruel streak of messing with people to see what they'll do.

Healthcare according to need, not ability, to pay retains today its enduring appeal.

He decided to file an appeal against the decision of the inland revenue.

Just for the sake of conversation, what kind of man would appeal to you?

From crab cakes to savory turkey meatloaf, the menu features both vegetarian and traditional offerings to appeal to appetites big and small.

The district court, sitting with a jury, can try criminal cases without appeal, but only by special leave in each case of the court of appeal.

The ecclesiastical courts are for the most part officered by laymen, whose subordination to the archbishops and bishops is purely formal, and the final court of appeal is the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Pusey, is associated with a theological appeal to the tradition of the early centuries, and with a strongly medieval emphasis upon sacramental grace.

The strength of all the idealists consists in their appeal to reason.

From that tribunal there is to be no appeal, whether to a higher revelation or to a deeper experience.

Appeal to parliament resulted in the Dissenters' Chapels Act (1844), which secures that, so far as trusts do not specify doctrines, twenty-five years tenure legitimates existing usage.

Through the years, the restaurant has expanded the traditional menu to accommodate modern recipes and appeal to the younger generation.

These restaurants are popular for good reason-the menu offers a wide range of options sure to appeal to fondue lovers and to make converts out of those who have yet to be introduced to fondue.

The Lancelot story, in its rise and development, belongs exclusively to the later stage of Arthurian romance; it was a story for the court, not for the folk, and it lacks alike the dramatic force and human appeal of the genuine "popular" tale.

The main position is that the king is not free in Paris; he must therefore leave Paris and appeal to France.

He must then go towards the interior of France to a provincial capital, best of all to Rouen, and there he must appeal to the people and summon a great convention.

On the last point, however, the case was carried to the Supreme Court of the United States, and there Webster, presenting principally arguments of his colleagues at the state trial and making a powerful appeal to the emotions of the court, won the case for the college and for himself the front rank at the American bar.

The appeal to Rome was a natural course to be advocated by Wolsey, whose despotism over the English church depended upon an authority derived from Rome; but it was probably a mistake.

The purely theoretical character of Anu is thus still further emphasized, and in the annals and votive inscriptions as well as in the incantations and hymns, he is rarely introduced as an active force to whom a personal appeal can be made.

The clergy having thus another authority, and one moreover more canonical, to appeal to, the power of the archdeacons gradually declined; and, so far as the Roman Catholic Church is concerned, it received its death-blow from the council of Trent (1564), which withdrew all matrimonial and criminal causes from the competence of the archdeacons, forbade them to pronounce excommunications, and allowed them only to hold visitations in connexion with those of the bishop and with his consent.

Every hypothesis must be tested by an appeal to the facts of life, and modified or abandoned if it will not bear examination, unless we are convinced on genuine evidence that it may for a time be employed as a useful approximation, without prejudice to the later stages of the investigation we are conducting.

The appeal to authority cannot be permitted in economics any more than in chemistry, physics or astronomy.

How can such a huge mass of general propositions as are necessarily included in a system of economics ever be thoroughly tested by an appeal to facts?

The beginnings of this rupture, as well as a sharp affray between his volunteers and the townsfolk of Ajaccio, may have quickened Bonaparte's resolve to return to France in May 1792, but there were also personal and family reasons for this step. Having again exceeded his time of furlough, he was liable to the severe penalties attaching to a deserter and an émigré but he saw that the circumstances of the time would help to enforce the appeal for reinstatement which he resolved to make at Paris.

On the 12th of October both potentates addressed an appeal to George III.

Yet, despite the discontent seething in many quarters, France responded to his appeal for troops; but she did so mechanically and without hope.

Santini's Appeal to the British Nation (London, 1817) and the Manuscrit venu de Ste Helene d'une maniere inconnue (London, 1817) are forgeries.

The idea was a captivating one, and an appeal from the Russians for help in that quarter was difficult to resist.

At the Riksdag assembled at Stockholm in 1697, the estates, jealous of the influence of the regents, offered full sovereignty to the young monarch, the senate acquiesced, and, after some hesitation, Charles at last declared that he could not resist the urgent appeal of his subjects and would take over the government of the realm "in God's name."

He voted for the death of Louis XVI., without appeal or delay, but played no noticeable part in the Convention.

His appeal to Caesar involved a protracted process, and it is very difficult to put expressions like those e.g.

The exegetical arguments are, in short, the final court of appeal, and their verdict tells rather in favour of the epistle's integrity.

The city is the seat of a court of appeal.

It is this most fatal doubt which evokes the Shepherd's sternest rebuke; and he meets it with the ultimate religious appeal, viz.

The prohibition was removed on appeal to Rome, but in 1541 Vermigli was transferred to Lucca, where he again fell under suspicion.

She used all her influence in favour of the unfortunate Raleigh, answering his petition to her for protection with a personal letter of appeal to Buckingham to save his life.

The appeal was refused (August 1895).

Disraeli, recognizing the full significance of this decision, announced that, as soon as the necessary preparations could be made, the government would appeal from the House to the country.

These were confiscated, and William left the kingdom, but no more was heard of his appeal, and in 1091 he regained the royal favour and his see.

He managed the king's case against Anselm, and at Rockingham (1095) actually claimed the right of appeal, when it was claimed by the archbishop. Notwithstanding his zeal for the royal interests, William was soon afterwards disgraced.

Pau, the capital and seat of a court of appeal, Bayonne, Oloron, Biarritz, Orthez, EauxBonnes, and St Jean-de-Luz are the principal towns.

The whole closes with an appeal to the princes, with a reference to the edict issued by Hadrian in favour of the Christians.

But the appeal to the verbally inspired Bible was stronger than that to a church hopelessly divided; the Bible, and not the consent of the universal church, became the touchstone of the reformed orthodoxy; in the nomenclature of the time, " evangelical " arose in contradistinction to " Catholic," while, in popular parlance, the " protest " of the Reformers against the " corruptions of Rome " led to the invention of the term " Protestant," which, though nowhere assumed in the official titles of the older reformed churches, was early used as a generic term to include them all.