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Ap*pease"ment (&?;), n. The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification. Hayward.

Ap*peas"er (&?;), n. One who appeases; a pacifier.

Ap*pea"sive (&?;), a. Tending to appease.

Ap*pel"la*ble (&?;), a. Appealable.

Ap*pel"lan*cy (&?;), n. Capability of appeal.

Ap*pel"lant (&?;), a. [L. appellans, p. pr. of appellare; cf. F. appelant. See Appeal.] Relating to an appeal; appellate. "An appellant jurisdiction." Hallam.

Party appellant (Law), the party who appeals; appellant; -- opposed to respondent, or appellee. Tomlins.

Ap*pel"lant, n. 1. (Law) (a) One who accuses another of felony or treason. [Obs.] (b) One who appeals, or asks for a rehearing or review of a cause by a higher tribunal.

2. A challenger. [Obs.] Milton.

3. (Eccl. Hist.) One who appealed to a general council against the bull Unigenitus.

4. One who appeals or entreats.

Ap*pel"late (&?;), a. [L. appelatus, p. p. of appellare.] Pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, appeals. "Appellate jurisdiction." Blackstone. "Appellate judges." Burke.

Appelate court, a court having cognizance of appeals.

Ap*pel"late, n. A person or prosecuted for a crime. [Obs.] See Appellee.

Ap`pel*la"tion (&?;), n. [L. appellatio, fr. appellare: cf. F. appellation. See Appeal.] 1. The act of appealing; appeal. [Obs.] Spenser.

2. The act of calling by a name.

3. The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation.

They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates. Hume.

Syn. -- See Name.

Ap*pel"la*tive (&?;), a. [L. appellativus, fr. appellare: cf. F. appelatif. See Appeal.] 1. Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. Cudworth.

2. (Gram.) Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class.

Ap*pel"la*tive, n. [L. appelativum, sc. nomen.] 1. A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.

2. An appellation or title; a descriptive name.

God chosen it for one of his appellatives to be the Defender of them. Jer. Taylor.

Ap*pel"la*tive*ly, adv. After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.

Ap*pel"la*tive*ness, n. The quality of being appellative. Fuller.

Ap*pel"la*tory (&?;), a. [L. appellatorius, fr. appellare.] Containing an appeal.

An appellatory libel ought to contain the name of the party appellant. Ayliffe.