appeale

Verb

appeal (third-person singular simple present appeals, present participle appealing, simple past and past participle appealed)

1. (intransitive) Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
   • Dissatisfied with the judge’s ruling, she decided to appeal.
2. (transitive) To apply to a superior court or judge to review and overturn (a decision or order by an inferior court or judge).
   • The plaintiff appealed the decision to the appellate court.
3. (historical, transitive) To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
   • This ſhalle not ſo be ended ſaid ſyr Mador de la porte / for here haue I loſte a ful noble knyght of my blood / And therfore vpon this ſhame & deſpyte I wille be reuenged to the vtteraunce / and there openly ſir Mador appeled the quene of the dethe of his coſyn ſir patryſe /[1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum Tercium”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XVIII (in Middle English), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC, leaf 365, recto...
4. (historical, transitive) Of a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.
5. (historical, transitive) Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).
6. (intransitive) To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
   • And we are as willing to appeal to the Scripture as you.1692, John Milton, chapter II, in [Joseph Washington], transl., A Defence of the People of England, […]: In Answer to Salmasius’s Defence of the King, [London?]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 18

   Synonyms:

   adjure

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