'Appeal' definitions:
Definition of 'appeal'
From: WordNet
noun
Earnest or urgent request; "an entreaty to stop the fighting"; "an appeal for help"; "an appeal to the public to keep calm" [syn: entreaty, prayer, appeal]
noun
Attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates; "his smile was part of his appeal to her" [syn: appeal, appealingness, charm]
noun
(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; "their appeal was denied in the superior court"
noun
Request for a sum of money; "an appeal to raise money for starving children" [syn: solicitation, appeal, collection, ingathering]
verb
Take a court case to a higher court for review; "He was found guilty but appealed immediately"
verb
Request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection; "appeal to somebody for help"; "Invoke God in times of trouble" [syn: appeal, invoke]
verb
Be attractive to; "The idea of a vacation appeals to me"; "The beautiful garden attracted many people" [syn: attract, appeal] [ant: repel, repulse]
verb
Challenge (a decision); "She appealed the verdict"
verb
Cite as an authority; resort to; "He invoked the law that would save him"; "I appealed to the law of 1900"; "She invoked an ancient law" [syn: invoke, appeal]
Definition of 'Appeal'
From: Easton
- Appeal a reference of any case from an inferior to a superior court. Moses established in the wilderness a series of judicatories such that appeals could be made from a lower to a higher (Ex. 18:13-26.)
- Under the Roman law the most remarkable case of appeal is that of Paul from the tribunal of Festus at Caesarea to that of the emperor at Rome (Acts 25:11, 12, 21, 25). Paul availed himself of the privilege of a Roman citizen in this matter.
Synonyms of 'appeal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acceptability,
- adjuration,
- adjure,
- adorability,
- agacerie,
- agreeability,
- aid prayer,
- allure,
- allurement,
- amiability,
- Angelus,
- appeal motion,
- appeal to,
- appealingness,
- application,
- application for retrial,
- apply,
- asking,
- attract,
- attraction,
- attractiveness,
- Ave,
- Ave Maria,
- be attractive,
- beadroll,
- beads,
- beckon,
- beg,
- beguile,
- beguilement,
- beguiling,
- beseech,
- beseechment,
- bewitchery,
- bewitchment,
- bid,
- bidding prayer,
- blandishment,
- brace,
- breviary,
- cajolery,
- call,
- call for help,
- call on,
- call upon,
- captivation,
- certiorari,
- chaplet,
- charisma,
- charm,
- charmingness,
- clamor,
- clamor for,
- collect,
- come-hither,
- communion,
- conjure,
- contemplation,
- crave,
- cry,
- cry for,
- cry on,
- cry to,
- delightfulness,
- desirability,
- devotions,
- draw,
- drawing power,
- enchantment,
- engage,
- enravishment,
- enthrallment,
- enticement,
- entrancement,
- entrapment,
- entreat,
- entreaty,
- excite,
- exquisiteness,
- fascinate,
- fascination,
- fetch,
- flirtation,
- forbidden fruit,
- glamour,
- grace,
- Hail Mary,
- impetrate,
- impetration,
- imploration,
- implore,
- imploring,
- importune,
- imprecate,
- imprecation,
- inducement,
- intercession,
- interest,
- intrigue,
- inveiglement,
- invitation,
- invite,
- invitingness,
- invocation,
- invocatory plea,
- invoke,
- kneel to,
- Kyrie Eleison,
- likability,
- litany,
- lovability,
- loveliness,
- lovesomeness,
- lure,
- luxury,
- magnetism,
- meditation,
- obsecration,
- obtest,
- obtestation,
- orison,
- Paternoster,
- petition,
- plea,
- plead,
- plead for,
- pleasantness,
- please,
- pray,
- prayer,
- prayer wheel,
- provocativeness,
- pull,
- request,
- requesting,
- rogation,
- rosary,
- run to,
- seducement,
- seduction,
- seductiveness,
- sensuousness,
- sex appeal,
- silent prayer,
- snaring,
- solicit,
- solicitation,
- sue,
- sue for,
- suit,
- summon,
- supplicate,
- supplication,
- sweetness,
- tantalization,
- tantalize,
- tantalizingness,
- tease,
- tempt,
- temptation,
- temptingness,
- thanks,
- thanksgiving,
- tickle,
- titillate,
- unobjectionableness,
- voluptuousness,
- whet the appetite,
- winning ways,
- winningness,
- winsomeness,
- witchcraft,
- witchery,
- wooing,
- writ of certiorari,
- writ of error