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Appeal   /əpˈil/   Listen
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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"Appeal" Quotes from Famous Books



... hate a thing which is not human? No, but you can dread it. It escapes from the laws which bind you and which bind me. What standards govern it? How can you hope to win it? Love? What beauty is there in the world to appeal to such a creature except the beauty of the marrow-bone which his teeth have ...
— The Night Horseman • Max Brand
... after all with the very small folk, those to the manner born, that she made the easiest terms. She loved, she had from the first enthusiastically adopted, the engaging Venetian people, whose virtues she found touching and their infirmities but such as appeal mainly to the sense of humour and the love of anecdote; and she befriended and admired, she studied and spoiled them. There must have been a multitude of whom it would scarce be too much to say that her long residence among ...
— Italian Hours • Henry James
... realms not granted to her by her lawgivers. The modern aspiration of the "new woman" of the West does not appeal to her. She asks only to be let alone in her narrow ...
— India's Problem Krishna or Christ • John P. Jones
... another aspect of French Tragedy from which it cannot appeal to the authority of the ancients: this is, the tying of poetry to a number of merely conventional proprieties. On this subject the French are far less clear than on that of the rules; for nations are not usually more capable of knowing and ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black
... time. After she and I have talked our plans over together we will ask you whether you are inclined to advance the necessary money. If you say 'Yes,' Miss Egerton will speak to the girls, and tell them quite openly what you are doing, and appeal to their common sense not to reject their only real chance of obtaining an independence bye-and-bye. They can, if they think right, arrange to pay you back within a certain term of years. I believe you will do best for them by making ...
— The Palace Beautiful - A Story for Girls • L. T. Meade


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