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Appeal

noun

1.

Earnest or urgent request. Synonyms: entreaty, prayer. "An appeal for help" , "An appeal to the public to keep calm"

2.

Attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates. Synonyms: appealingness, charm.

3.

(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.

4.

Request for a sum of money. Synonyms: collection, ingathering, solicitation.

verb

(past & past part. appealed; pres. part. appealing)

1.

Take a court case to a higher court for review.

2.

Request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection. Synonym: invoke. "Invoke God in times of trouble"

3.

Be attractive to. Synonym: attract. "The beautiful garden attracted many people"

4.

Challenge (a decision).

5.

Cite as an authority; resort to. Synonym: invoke. "I appealed to the law of 1900" , "She invoked an ancient law"

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"Appeal" Quotes from Famous Books

... cried and wept as she had been wood; and then she kissed him, and did what she might to awake him. And then she rebuked her brother and Sir Bors, and called them false traitors, why they would take him out of his bed; there she cried, and said she would appeal ...

— Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II (of II) - King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table • Thomas Malory

... the assailants of Miss Melton, an American teacher in Mosul, have been convicted by the Ottoman courts, and I am advised that an appeal against the acquittal of the remaining five has been taken ...

— Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Volume 8, Section 2 (of 2): Grover Cleveland • Grover Cleveland

... Mike could not help giggling as he pictured what Bob's expression must have been when his brother read this document. But the humorous side of the thing did not appeal to him for long. What should he say to Bob? What would Bob say to him? Dash it all, it made him look such an awful ass! Anyhow, Bob couldn't do much. In fact he didn't see that he could do anything. The team was filled up, and Burgess was not likely to alter ...

— Mike • P. G. Wodehouse

... began to enjoy his power as the undisputed ruler of a large number of Arab tribes. But success has been the undoing of a large number of men who were great in the days of adversity. He tried to gain the good will of the rich people by a number of regulations which could appeal to those of wealth. He allowed the Faithful to have four wives. As one wife was a costly investment in those olden days when brides were bought directly from the parents, four wives became a positive luxury except to those who possessed camels and dromedaries and date orchards beyond ...

— The Story of Mankind • Hendrik van Loon

... horse strode; His shoes hewed fire from the rocky road; And the high-born courage that never dies Flashed from his rider's coal-black eyes. The pebbles flew from the fearful race: The raindrops grasped at her glowing face. "On, on, brave beast!" with loud appeal, Cried eager, resolute ...

— Poems Teachers Ask For • Various

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