Appealer

ap·peal  (-pl)

n.

1. An earnest or urgent request, entreaty, or supplication.

2. A resort to a higher authority or greater power, as for sanction, corroboration, or a decision: an appeal to reason; an appeal to her listener's sympathy.

3. Law

a. The transfer of a case from a lower to a higher court for a new hearing.

b. A case so transferred.

c. A request for a new hearing.

4. The power of attracting or of arousing interest: a city with special appeal for museumgoers.

v. ap·pealed, ap·peal·ing, ap·peals

v.intr.

1. To make an earnest or urgent request, as for help.

2. To have recourse, as for corroboration; resort: I appeal to your sense of justice.

3. Law To make or apply for an appeal.

4. To be attractive or interesting: The idea didn't appeal to me.

v.tr. Law

To transfer or apply to transfer (a case) to a higher court for rehearing.

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[Middle English apel, from Old French, from apeler, to appeal, from Latin appellre, to entreat; see pel-⁵ in Indo-European roots.]

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ap·peala·bili·ty n.

ap·peala·ble adj.

ap·pealer n.