Definition of appeal

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Appeal (v. t.) 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..

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Appellant :: Appellant (n.) One who appealed to a general council against the bull Unigenitus.
Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) The mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected.
Moving :: Moving (a.) Exciting movement of the mind; adapted to move the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic; as, a moving appeal..
Assault :: Assault (n.) A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; as, to make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government..
Ineffective :: Ineffective (a.) Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal..
Inappellable :: Inappellable (a.) Inappealable; final.
Appellor :: Appellor (n.) The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime..
Inhibition :: Inhibition (n.) A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal..
Oath :: Oath (n.) A solemn affirmation or declaration, made with a reverent appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed..
Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) 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..
Appealer :: Appealer (n.) One who makes an appeal.
Appellate :: Appellate (a.) Pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, appeals..
Appellant :: Appellant (n.) One who appeals or entreats.
Appellee :: Appellee (n.) The defendant in an appeal; -- opposed to appellant.
Swear :: Swear (v. i.) To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also, to affirm solemnly by some sacred object, or one regarded as sacred, as the Bible, the Koran, etc..
Peal :: Peal (v. i.) To appeal.
Appellatory :: Appellatory (a.) Containing an appeal.
Protestant :: Protestant (v.) One who protests; -- originally applied to those who adhered to Luther, and protested against, or made a solemn declaration of dissent from, a decree of the Emperor Charles V. and the Diet of Spires, in 1529, against the Reformers, and appealed to a general council; -- now used in a popular sense to designate any Christian who does not belong to the Roman Catholic or the Greek Church..
Move :: Move (v. t.) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence..
Appeal :: Appeal (v. t.) 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..
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