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/ˌæpəlˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Appellation n.

The act of appealing; appeal. (Obs.)

The act of calling by a name.

The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation. "They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates."

Synonyms: See Name.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... about being a father, Mr. Naseby,' said he; 'I believe you forget that the appellation is common to both of us. I am at a loss to figure to myself, however dimly, how any man - I have not said any gentleman - could so brazenly insult another as you have been insulting me since you entered this house. For the ...

— Tales and Fantasies • Robert Louis Stevenson

... owes part of its stream, as well as its appellation, to the Isis; rising a little above Winchelcomb, and being increased with several rivulets, unites both its waters and its name to the Thame, on the other side of Oxford; thence, after passing by London, ...

— Travels in England and Fragmenta Regalia • Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton

... of which slavery has deprived the black is a name. A slave has no family designation. It may be for that reason that a high-sounding appellation is usually selected for the single one ...

— Continental Monthly - Volume 1 - Issue 3 • Various

... to the compiler of "Beowulf's Lay", 2025) had, in the Dane's eyes, almost eclipsed Sciold as conqueror and lawgiver. His name Frode almost looks as if his epithet Sapiens had become his popular appellation, and it befits him well. Of him were told many stories, and notably the one related of our Edwin by Bede (and as it has been told by many men of many rulers since Bede wrote, and before). Frode was able to hang up an arm-ring of gold in three parts of his kingdom that no thief for ...

— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")

... rhetorically, "but no—I will not call you gentlemen; here to-night, I note it with pride and gladness, there are but few who can claim that courtesy title. I who speak, and most of you who do me the honour to listen, can lay claim to no prouder appellation than that of MEN. What then, fellow-men, I ask you, what is the House of Lords? What purpose does it serve except to delay all beneficent legislation, to waste the country's time and to nullify the best efforts. . . . Confound . ...

— The Ffolliots of Redmarley • L. Allen Harker

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