appealer

ap·peal

 (ə-pēl′)

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. A higher court's review of the correctness of a decision by a lower court.

b. A case so reviewed.

c. A request for a higher court to review the decision of a lower court.

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 request an appeal.

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

v.tr. Law

To request for an appeal of (a case) to a higher court for rehearing.

Idiom:

on appeal

In the process of being appealed; while being appealed.

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

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ap·peal′a·bil′i·ty n.

ap·peal′a·ble adj.

ap·peal′er n.

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Thesaurus

appealer

noun

One that asks a higher authority for something, as a favor or redress:

appellant, petitioner, suitor.

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