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noun

Appellant n.

(Law)

(a)

One who accuses another of felony or treason. (Obs.)

(b)

One who appeals, or asks for a rehearing or review of a cause by a higher tribunal.

A challenger. (Obs.)

(Eccl. Hist.) One who appealed to a general council against the bull Unigenitus.

One who appeals or entreats.

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Etymology of 'Appellant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Wight, occurs with the Jutlanders of the peninsula of Jutland. The common forms are Jutland, Jute, Jutones, and Jutenses, but they are not the only ones. In A.D. 952, we find "Dania cismarina quam Vitland incolae appellant."—"Annales Saxonici."[13] ...

— A Handbook of the English Language • Robert Gordon Latham

... sequence or order, Durand himself taking no notice of any interval between this first visit to Vaucouleurs and the final one.(2) The episode of Ascension Day appears like the formal sommation of French law, made as a matter of form before the appellant takes action on his own responsibility; but Baudricourt had probably more to do with it than appears to be at all certain from the after evidence. One of the persons present, at all events, young Poulengy above mentioned, bore ...

— Jeanne d'Arc - Her Life And Death • Mrs.(Margaret) Oliphant

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