Find the word definition

Crossword clues for appealed

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appealed

Appeal \Ap*peal"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Appealed; p. pr. & vb. n. Appealing.] [OE. appelen, apelen, to appeal, accuse, OF. appeler, fr. L. appellare to approach, address, invoke, summon, call, name; akin to appellere to drive to; ad + pellere to drive. See Pulse, and cf. Peal.]

  1. (Law)

    1. To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court.

    2. To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony.

  2. To summon; to challenge. [Archaic]

    Man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  3. To invoke. [Obs.]
    --Milton.

Appealed

Appease \Ap*pease"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Appealed; p. pr. & vb. n. Appeasing.] [OE. apesen, apaisen, OF. apaisier, apaissier, F. apaiser, fr. a (L. ad) + OF. pais peace, F. paix, fr. L. pax, pacis. See Peace.] To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred); as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst.

Syn: To pacify; quiet; conciliate; propitiate; assuage; compose; calm; allay; hush; soothe; tranquilize.

Wiktionary
appealed

vb. (en-past of: appeal)

Usage examples of "appealed".

The odds against parallel development were staggering, but the notion that they might have found an unknown cousin of their own race strongly appealed to him.

He appealed to each of his listeners in turn, clearly disliking talking to more than one mage at a time.

This isn't the first time Damia has instinctively appealed to Afra as a source of reassurance and assistance.

She appealed to me because she did not wish Jeff to know of your indiscretion.

Ballybran, in its eternal struggle for survival against gigantic natural forces, appealed to another instinct in her.

Something that appealed to any singer was how to make enough credit quickly enough to get off-planet for as long as possible.

From Tavis's expression, this was not a suggestion that appealed to him.

Not that there hadn’t been clutches successfully hatched on makeshift warm beds, but the sand flooring appealed to the queens.

Her youngest sister had appealed to her spouse to take the man away and let Merelan rest, and promised to see that Merelan did do so.

Yet even they, at a crucial moment in the sensitive awareness of adolescence, had appealed to Dragonkind.

With his eyes, he appealed to his mother to support him, but Thella raged on.

Robinton had been one of the few northerners whom Toric had respected, so he had not appealed the appointment.

He was a dangerous animal, but he appealed to her on a prim­itive level that she had never before suspected existed within herself.

Caroline's sense of style had been outraged, but the green surgicals had appealed to her.

Everything about her appealed to him, and that was surprising in itself, because there was nothing overtly sexual about her manner.