Appeal
To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court.
To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony.
To summon; to challenge.
To invoke.
To apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior to a superior judge or court for the purpose of reexamination of for decision.
To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.; as, I appeal to all mankind for the truth of what is alleged. Hence: To call on one for aid; to make earnest request.
An application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for reexamination or review.
The mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected.
The right of appeal.
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.
An accusation of a felon at common law by one of his accomplices, which accomplice was then called an approver. See Approvement.
A summons to answer to a charge.
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.
Resort to physical means; recourse.
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Appeal Quotations
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Mahatma Gandhi
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Khalil Gibran
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
Audrey Hepburn
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
Jim Morrison
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Albert Camus
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
James Russell Lowell
I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
Bear Bryant
It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
Andy Rooney
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Erich Fromm
Appeal Translations
appeal in Dutch is appelleren, een beroep doen op
appeal in French is manifeste, vocation, pourvoi
appeal in German is anrufen, sich berufen, einwirken, appellieren
appeal in Italian is chiamata, appello
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