appeal
/əˈpiːl/ nom B1En français : appel, attrait
- An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
- A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review. · I have an appeal against the lower court decision.
- An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
- 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 offence against the public; an accusation.
- At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
- A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation. · He made an appeal for volunteers to help at the festival.
- The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
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Marilla felt an uncomfortable conviction that, if she denied the appeal of that look, it would haunt her to her dying day.
Rachel’s own children could have borne smarting testimony--did not appeal to Marilla.
I appeal to Mr.
For the truth of everything here related, I can appeal more particularly to the testimony of Colonel Fitzwilliam, who, from our near relationship and constant intimacy, and still more as one of the executors of my father’s will, has been unavoidably acquainted with every particular of these transactions.
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