appealnoun詞源 1/əˈpiːl/

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  lawAn application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.

• 2

  lawThe legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.

• 3

  lawA person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.

  • I have an appeal against the lower court decision.
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  historicallawAn accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).

  • Anciently an appeal lay for high treaſon. […] But it ſeems to be taken away by the ſt[atute] 1 H[enry] 4. 14. And now, if murder be made treaſon, an appeal does not lie.
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  historicallawA 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.

  • Ovld Iohn of Gaunt time honoured Lancaſter, / Haſt thou according to thy oath and bande / Brought hither Henrie Herford thy bolde ſonne, / Here to make good the boiſtrous late appeale, / Which then our leyſure would not let vs heare / Againſt the Duke of Norfolke, Thomas Moubray?
• 6

  historicallawAt common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).

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  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.
  • As for the Caſting vp of the Eyes, and Lifting vp of the Hands, it is a kinde of Appeale to the Deity; Which is the Author, by Power, and Prouidence, of Strange Wonders.
• 8

  ball-gamescricketgamesA call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.

appealverb詞源 2/əˈpiːl/

• 1

  lawOften 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.
  • He was advised by his lawyer to appeal against his conviction.
• 2

  lawTo 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.
  • The supreme court of Victoria has upheld a decision the transfer of juvenile detainees to an adult maximum security prison, where some of them spent Christmas Day, was unlawful. The [Daniel] Andrews government had appealed the original decision, which was handed down last week.
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  historicallawTo 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 /
  • We thanke you both, yet one but flatters vs, / As well appeareth by the cauſe you come, / Namely to appeale each other of high treaſon: […]
• 4

  historicallawOf a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.

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  historicallawOf the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).

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  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.
  • If I should sometimes have occasion, which will be but seldom, to appeal to the Scriptures in the original language, it will not be to impose a new sense upon the texts which I may find it to my purpose to produce, but to open and ascertain the meaning, where the original expressions may be more clear and determinate than those of our translation.
• 7

  ball-gamescricketgamesTo 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.

• 8

  To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.

  • I appeal to all of you to help the orphans.
  • What is more, I call upon the greater part of you as witnesses to my statement, and I appeal to all of you who have ever listened to me talking (and there are a great many to whom this applies) to clear your neighbours’ minds on this point.