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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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... "It doesn't appeal to my client," said the solicitor. "He has, as you would put it, British prejudices. I don't intend to display all our program, but it includes a visit to your rivals and the men who finance you. Still, ...

— Lorimer of the Northwest • Harold Bindloss

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— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley

... openly allied itself with the Transvaal Government. There are said to be several commandos in laager on the Border. A public meeting of citizens of this town has been held, at which a vote of 'No confidence' in the Dutch Ministers has been passed, and an appeal for help has been made to the Government at Cape Town. It is not yet publicly known what the response has been, if there is any. I think it ominous that all of our Dutch pupils, save one, should have been hurriedly sent for by their parents ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... out his hands towards the throne in mute appeal. Thereupon one of the Seraphim flew to the Altar and, with a pair of tongs, took from it a live coal. From the Altar the Seraph flew directly to Isaiah and, touching his mouth with ...

— Stories of the Prophets - (Before the Exile) • Isaac Landman

... we, too have our clouds that hide us from the eyes of men. The noonday of our own bustling time beholds us dimly; but posterity regards us as it were from the bottom of a well. Time, that exact observer, applies his micrometer to every one of us, determining our rank among celestial bodies without appeal and from time to time enrolling in his ephemeris such new luminaries as may be vouchsafed to the long ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXIX. - March, 1843, Vol. LIII. • Various

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