appeal 
appeal (a-peT), *' [Early mod. E. also apeal, and 
270 
a/>l>i'll, (i/icll, < ME. iippclt-ii, fijictcii, < OF. iipder, effected. (<-/) The right of removal to 
F. appelcr = Pr. u/ipclttr = Sp. apelar = Pg. <i]>- court, (e) Formerly, a vindictive acti 
IH-U//I- = It. <i/>i>illiir<, < L. appi-llilrc, itd/it-llare, suit of a party injured when the supposi 
address, appeal to, summon, accuse, accost by 
name, n secondary form of H/I/K //</< . adpeUere, 
mode of procedure by which such removal is 
a higher 
vindictive action at the 
posed crimi- 
nal had boon previously acquitted on an indict- 
ment or pardoned. Tin: appellant raised an action 
Man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists. 
Scott. 
2. In taw: (a) To remove, as a cause, from a 
lower to a higher judge or court. See appeal, 
n., 2 (b). 
Causes of any importance were appealed from the Scul- 
dasco to the Uastaldo. Browjlumt. 
(6) Formerly, to charge with a crime before a 
tribunal j accuse; institute a criminal prosecu- 
tion against for some heinous offense : witli of 
before the offense charged : as, to appeal a per- 
son of felony. 
I appeal you of murder. B. Jonson. 
In November, 1817, William Ashford appealed Abraham 
Thornton, to answer for the alleged murder of appellant's 
sister. JV. and Q., 6th ser., XI. 252. 
llacaulay, Hist. Eng., xxix. 
3. A summons to answer to a charge; a chal- 
lenge. 
Nor shall the sacred character of king 
Be urged to shield me from thy bold appeal. 
Dryden. 
4. A call to another to sanction or witness; a 
reference to another for proof or decision : as, 
in an oath a person makes an appeal to the 
Deity for the truth of his declaration. 5. Re- 
sort or recourse for decision. 
Every milder method is to be tried before a nation makes 
an appeal to arms. Kent. 
In the community of nations, the flrst appeal is to physi- 
cal force. Macaulay, Utilitarian Theory of Government. 
Commission of Appeals. See .-.,,,,,,,,\Wo,,i. syn. 1. 
Petition, Suit, etc. (see prayer), solicitation, application. 
If a Frenchman apiH-aled an Englishman, the English- appealable (a-pe'la-bl), a. [< appeal + -able.'} 
man had the choice of dther mode of trial f. Capable bf being appealed; admitting of 
freeman, Norm. Conq., IV. 423. , removable to a higher tribunal for de- 
3f. To address ; offer up, as an appeal. 
They both uprose and tooke their ready way 
Unto the church, their praiers to appele. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. ii. 48. 
II. intrans. 1. To call for aid, mercy, sym- 
pathy, or the like ; make an earnest entreaty, 
or have the effect of an entreaty. 
Against their merit if this age rebel, 
To future times for justice they appeal. 
Dryden, Art of Poetry, iii. 755. 
The deepening expression of pain on Philip's face . . . 
cision. 
Pressure on the bench to make as many decisions as 
possible in a given time tends . . . to engender appealable 
decisions and prolong litigation. The Century, XXX. 330. 
2. Liable to be accused or called to answer 
by appeal : applied to persons : as, appealable 
for manslaughter. 3. That may be appealed 
(to). N.E.D. 
appealantt (a-pe'lant), . [< appeal + -ant 1 . 
Cf. appellant.'} One who appeals; an appel- 
lant. 
appealer (a-pe'ler), n. [(appeal +-eri. Cf. 
appellor.} 1. One who appeals, or carries his 
2. In law, to refer to a superior judge or court cause to a higher court. 2. An appellor; an 
for the decision of a cause depending ; specifi- accuser or informer. 
cally, to refer a decision of a lower court or i should become an appealer, or every bishop's espie. 
judge to a higher one, for reexamination and Foxe, Book of Martyrs (Thorpe), 
revisal. appealingly (a-pe'ling-li), adv. In an appeal 
I appeal unto Caesar. Acts jccv. 11. ing or entreating manner ; beseechingly. 
3. To refer to another person or authority for appealingness (a-pe'ling-nes), . The quality 
the decision of a question controverted, or for boin g appealing, or of awakening sympathy, 
the corroboration of testimony or facts ; in gen- Pity; or * ne l^k e - 
Ready sympathy . . . made him alive to a certain ap- 
pealingnens in her behaviour towards him. 
George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, xxxv. 
appear (a-per'), v. i. [Early mod. E. also apear, 
appeer (and by apheresispear, > mod. dial, pear), 
< ME. apeeren, aperen, appieren, < OF. aperer, 
apperer (Roquefort), aparir, reg. inf. apareir, 
aparoir = Pr. aparer = It. apparire, apparere, < 
L. apparere, adparere, appear, < ad, to, + po- 
rere, appear, come in sight (a secondary form 
eral, to refer to some tribunal explicitly men- 
tioned or implied. 
I appeal to the Scriptures in the original. 
Honley, Sermons, I. i. 
I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. 
Emerson, Self-Keliance. 
4. To have recourse ; resort for proof, decision, 
or settlement : as, to appeal to force. 
Not prevailing by dispute, he appeals to a miracle, re- 
storing to sight a blind man whom the Britons could not 
cure. Milton, Hist. Eng., iv. 
[In all senses, with to or unto before the tribunal whose 
judgment is asked, and from before that whose decision is 
rejected.] 
appeal (a-pel'). . [Early mod. E. also appel, 
appell, apell; < ME. apeel, apel, apele (and by 
apheresispefe, > mod. E. peal, q. v.), < OF. apel, 
F. appel, appeal ; from the verb.] 1. An address 
or invocation; a call for sympathy, mercy, 
aid, or the like ; a supplication ; an entreaty : 
as, an appeal for help ; an appeal for mercy. 
Whenever yet wi 
of parere, produce): see apparent and parent.} 
1 . To come or be in sight ; become visible by 
approach or by emerging from concealment ; be 
exposed to view. 
And God said, . . . Let the dry land appear. Gen. i. 9. 
The angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of 
flre out of the midst of a bush. Ex. iii. 2. 
In each cheek appears a pretty dimple. 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 242. 
appease 
appearance (a-per'ans), . [Early mod. E. also 
/'/""'"'"'''. < -ME. apiH-rainicc, -nix; the same 
as ii/i/iiin'iicc (q. v.), conformed to /</xw.] 1. 
The act of coming into sight; tin- act or becom- 
ing visible to the eye: as, the appearance of the 
sun above the horizon. 2f. The state of be- 
ing in sight ; visibility. [Rare.] 
lie's built a bower, made it secure, 
Wi' carbuncle and stain- ; 
Tho' travellers were never sae nigh, 
Appearance it had nane. 
VIIUHII Akin, in child's Ballads, 1. 180. 
3. A coming into presence ; the act of present- 
ing one's self: as, his sudden appearance sur- 
prised me. 
The duke does greet you, general ; 
And he requires your haste-post-haste apiiearance, 
Even on the instant. , Sliak., Othello, 1. 2. 
your appeal denied ? 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 1. 
2. To stand in presence, as parties or advocates 
before a court ; make appearance. 
We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. 
2 Cor. v. 10. 
2. A proceeding taken to reverse a decision 3- T come or be placed before the public ; 
by submitting it to the review of a higher au- come to the notice of the public : as, the actor 
thority: as, an appeal to the house from a de- appeared only once a week; his history appeared 
cision of the chair. In law: (a) Sometimes in I. 880 - 4 - T O be obvious; be known, as a 
used in the above general meaning, so as to subject of observation or comprehension; be 
include writs of error, certiorari, etc. (6) clear or made clear by evidence. 
Strictly, the removal of a cause or suit from a !t dotn not y et appear what we shall be. 1 John iii. 2. 
lower to a higher tribunal, in order that the lat- 5. To seem; have a certain semblance or ap- 
ter may revise, and, if it seems needful, reverse pearance ; look : as, he appeared to be wise ; it 
or amend, the decision of the former, in modern 
usage an appeal implies not merely a preliminary objec- 
tion, but a proceeding for review after a decision has been 
rendered. As now used, it is a proceeding derived from 
the courts of equity. The mode of review at common law 
was formerly not to remove the cause, but only to bring 
up specific points or questions by writs of error. This was 
changed in England by the judicature acts of 1873-5, and 
there is now one Court of Appeal for all cases. In Scotland 
the highest appellate court is the Court of Session. The 
Judgment* of both these courts may be appealed to the 
House of Lords. In the United States the appeal has been 
to a great extent substituted for the writ of error. The 
highest appellate courts are, for federal questions arising appeart (a-per ), n. [< appear, V.} Appearance, 
in either federal or State courts, the United States Su- Her e w m I wash it in the morning's dew, 
preme Court ; for other questions, the supreme courts, Which she on every little grass doth strew 
courts of appeal, or courts of error of the various States, r n .iivpr rtrons undnid th<> aim's irimrnr 
the practice being wholly regulated by statutes. ( c ) The P JSr, Faithful Shepherdess, v. 4. 
appears to me that this is unsafe ; he appears 
very old. 
They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto 
Mat. vi. 
men to fast. Mat. vi. 16. 
Months to the old man appear no longer than weeks to 
the young man. H. Spencer, Prill, of Psychol., 91. 
6f. To be understood; be intelligible: as, "Do 
I now appear f" Cotgrare Appearing gratis, in 
chancery practice, the act of a defendant in causing his ap- 
pearance to be entered to defend a suit without waiting 
to be served with a process. = S Vn. 5. Look, etc. See seem. 
4. Au object as seen or perceived ; a phenom- 
enon ; the immediate object of experience. 
The term appearance is used to denote not only that 
which reveals itself to our observation as existent, but 
also to signify that which only seems to be, in contrast to 
that which truly is. Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., ix. 
Surely, it must 1J a miraculously active principle that 
can snatch up from transitoriness and oblivion the varie- 
gated play of fleeting and fading appearance*, anil con- 
struct therefrom the world of steady experience of which 
we have knowledge. Mind, IX. 350. 
5. Something believed to have a supernatural 
character ; an apparition : as, an appearance in 
the sky. 6. That which appears or is obvious ; 
outward show or seeming ; semblance as apart 
from reality or substance: as, there is an ap- 
pearance of trouble yonder; appearances are 
against him. 
Judge not according to the appearance. John vii. 24. 
Men are governed by opinion : this opinion is as much 
influenced by appearances as by realities. 
A. Hamilton, Works, I. 168. 
7. Outward look or aspect ; mien ; build and 
carriage ; figure : as, a man of noble appear- 
ance. 
Much have I heard, . . . 
And now am come to see of whom such noise 
Hath walk'd about, and each limb to survey, 
If thy appearance answer loud report. 
Milton, S. A.,1. 1090. 
8. pi. Indications; look. 
My master heard me with great appearances of uneasi- 
ness in his countenance. Swift, Gulliver's Travels, iv. 3. 
0. The act of coming before the public; the 
act of coming into public notice : as, he made 
his appearance as a historian; the appearance 
of a book. 10f. Seeming; probability; likeli- 
hood. 
There is that which hath no appearance. Bacon. 
1 1 . In law : (a) The coming into court of either 
of the parties to a suit ; the being present in 
court as a party to a pending proceeding ; the 
coming into court of a party summoned in a 
process, either in person or by his attorney, 
usually expressed by a formal entry by the 
proper officer to that effect ; the act or proceed- 
ing by which a party proceeded against places 
himself before the court and submits to its juris- 
diction. (6) In Scots law, the stating of a de- 
fense in a cause. Where a defender in writing, or by 
counsel at the bar, states a defense, he is said to have ap- 
peared.To put in an appearance, to appear in per- 
son. =Syn. 3. Arrival, presence. 6. Guise, show, pre- 
tense, pretext, color. 7. Air, look, manner, demeanor. 
appearer (a-per'fer), n. 1. One who or that 
which appears, in any sense of that word. 
[Rare.] 
Owls and ravens are ominous appearer*. and presignify 
unlucky events. Sir T. Broirne, Vulg. Err., v. 21. 
Specifically 2. In law, one who formally ap- 
pears (in court, etc.). 
appearingly (a-per'ing-li), adv. Apparently; 
seemingly; according to all outward signs. 
[Rare.] 
A flourishing branch shall grow out of his appearingly 
sere and sapless root. Bp. Hall, Paraph, of Isaiah. 
appeasable (a-pe'za-bl), a. [< appease + -able.'] 
Capable of being appeased, quieted, calmed, or 
pacified; placable. 
The tumult of a mob, appeasable only by . . . bloodshed. 
G. P. Lathrop, Spanish Vistas, p. 30. 
appeasableness (a-pe'za-bl-nes), n. The qual- 
ity of being appeasable. 
appease (a-peV), r. t. ; pret. and pp. appeased, 
ppr. appeasing. [Early mod. E. also apease, 
apeace (conformed to peace), apaise (and by 
apheresis pease), < ME. apesen, apeisen, apaiscn, 
< OF. apeser, apeisier, apaisier (F. apaiser = Pr. 
apaziar), pacify, bring to peace, < a, to, + pais, 
peis,pes, mod. F. paijc, peace: seepeace, and cf. 
apay, appay, of which appease is thus a doublet.] 
