Word Finder - appealed

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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).

The judges' decision might, however, be appealed against.

She escaped to the castle of Canossa, where the great count of Tuscany espoused her cause, and appealed in her behalf to Otto the Saxon.

The great Italian nobles, in their turn, appealed to Germany.

They appealed powerfully to the imagination and the religious sense.

His compatriots had already freed themselves from the yoke of Genoa, thanks to Pasquale Paoli; but in 1764 that republic appealed to Louis XV.

Tisza now appealed to the country, but was utterly defeated.

He appealed to the Left against the Catholics, by the amnesty of the 17th of April 1859.

Adam Smith had invariably associated the general principles of the subject with their applications, and in treating those applications had perpetually appealed to other and often far larger considerations than pure political economy affords.

Spain appealed in vain to European mediation, to the pope, to courts and governments.

Arouj having fallen in battle with the Spaniards in 1518, his brother Khair-ed-Din appealed to Selim, the sultan of Turkey, who sent him troops.

Obedience was difficult to enforce without military help, riots broke out in certain towns, and when Maurice was appealed to, as captain-general, he declined to act.

When Mercier appealed to the electorate in 1890, his policy was endorsed, and he was able to give effect to many important measures.

He extolled Charles Albert and appealed to his patriotism; he believed that the church was necessary and the secret societies harmful; rqpresentative government was undesirable, but he advocated a consultative assembly.

After six years of civil war he appealed to them to, state the conditions under which they would lay aside their hostility.

Gibbons, who had begun to run a steamboat from New Jersey, appealed to the Supreme Court.

At this point Aratus appealed to Sparta to help the Achaeans in repelling an expected Aetolian attack, and Agis was sent to the Isthmus at the head of an army.

The princes appealed to the emperor and to the diet; but the previous wars had so exhausted the power of the former that nothing could be done to resist the aggression.

It was this enterprise which brought him into antagonism with Rome, since Smyrna and Lampsacus appealed to the republic of the west, and the tension became greater after Antiochus had in 196 established a footing in Thrace.

The monophysite monks appealed to his authority, but could not prevent Justinian and the fifth oecumenical council at Constantinople (553) from anathematizing his teaching.

Alexander appealed to Ascanio Sforza for help, and even to the sultan.

But when Wladislaus, their lawful possessor, imposed similar tolls in the interests of the republic, Danzig protested and appealed to the Scandinavian powers.

They habitually disregarded the terms of the constitution, and, when the elections went against them, appealed to the sword.

At the Berlin Congress the Servian plenipotentiary, Jovan Ristich, in vain appealed to the Russian representatives to assist Servia to obtain better terms. The Russians themselves advised him to appeal to Austria and to try to obtain her support.

It appealed to and evoked a high order of intelligence, and its insistence on personal individual salvation has borne worthy fruit.

The criminal court of appeals has jurisdiction in all criminal cases appealed from the district and county courts.

Priscillian appealed to the emperor, with the unexpected result that with six of his companions he was burned alive at Treves in 385.

No English king again visited Ireland until James II., declared by his English subjects to have abdicated, and by the more outspoken Scots to have forfeited the crown, appealed to the loyalty or piety of the Catholic Irish.

When Lord Beaconsfield appealed to the country in March 1880, he reminded the country in a letter to the viceroy, the duke of Marlborough, that there was a party in Ireland " attempting to sever the constitutional tie which unites it to Great Britain in that bond which has favoured the power and prosperity of both," and that such an agitation might in the end be " scarcely less disastrous than pestilence and famine."

Scythian envoys sought her aid to stem the invasion of Darius; to her the Greeks of Asia Minor appealed to withstand the Persian advance and to aid the Ionian revolt; Plataea asked for her protection; Megara acknowledged her supremacy; and at the time of the Persian invasion under Xerxes no state questioned her right to lead the Greek forces on land and sea.

In 1499, appealed to by Venice, and encouraged by his favorite, Cardinal dAmboise (who was hoping to succeed Pope Alexander VI.), and also by Cesare Borgia, who had lofty ambitions in Italy, Louis XII.

But he wanted to be sole master of Italy; so in order to expel the French barbarians whom he had brought in, he appealed to other barbarians who were far more dangerous Spaniards, Germans and Swissto help him against Louis XII., and stabbed him from behind with the Holy League of 1511.

Vainly did Louis, brought back a captive to Paris, swear on the I4th of September 1791 solemnly mere lip-service to the constitution; the mistrustful party of revolution abandoned the constitution they had only just obtained, and to guard against the sovereigns mental reservations and the selfish policy of the middle classes, appealed to the main force of the people.

Germany, to stem which Pitt, back in power, appealed once more to an Anglo-Austro-Russian coalition against this new Charlemagne, who was trying to renew the old Empire, who was mastering France, Italy and Germany; who finally on the 2nd of December 1804 placed the imperial crown upon his head, after receiving the iron crown of the Lombard kings, and made Pius VII.

Philip laid claim to the whole country, but the people appealed to the protection of the empire, and Frederick III., in August 1457, recognized their direct dependence on the empire and called on Philip to bring forward formal proof of his rights.

He is regarded as the patron saint of Padua and of Portugal, and is appealed to by devout clients for finding lost objects.

Thereupon four bishops appealed against it to a general council; and the country became divided into "appellants" and "acceptants" (1717).

The archimandrite Eutyches having been deposed by his bishop, Flavianus of Constantinople, on account of his heterodox doctrine of the person of Christ, had appealed to Dioscurus, the successor of Cyril in the see of Alexandria, who restored him and moved the emperor Theodosius II.

He asserted that the suppression of the sexual impulse was emphatically the new revelation brought by the Logos, and appealed to 1 Cor.

This fact has subsequently been often quoted against those who have appealed to the events of 1415 to maintain that a council can depose a pope who is scandalizator ecclesiae.

Sure, he said her lifestyle appealed to him, but was that because it was something new?

She was unguarded and troubled, a combination that appealed to the Guardian in him.

But the convenience of a nice weekly roll in the hay without the threat of future com­plications and long-term commitments appealed to both and kept the fires of the strange partnership smoldering.

At this point he hasn't appealed to God or made claims that even most atheists would find contentious.

The idea of having a real live English aristocrat on his staff may have been something which appealed to General Corlette.

The idea of a short break in Provence with some sunshine, but also built-in activity had long appealed.

He threatened a ' march on Berlin ' and cleverly appealed to mass discontent over economic issues such as employment.

Kenyan has appealed for $ 150m to save the lives of people threatened by famine.

A successful defense against theological fatalism which appealed to the possibility of affecting the past would have to deal with these further issues.

The Panel shall have power to reverse or modify the decision appealed from in any way that it thinks fit.

Babbage often appealed to the traditional romanticized imagery with which the factory tourists all larded their stories.