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<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Eccl. Hist.)</fld> <def>One who appealed to a general council against the bull Unigenitus.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>One who appeals or entreats.</def>

<h1>Appellate</h1> <Xpage=71>

<hw>Ap*pel"late</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>appelatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>appellare</ets>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, appeals.</def> "<i>Appellate</i> jurisdiction." <i>Blackstone</i>. "<i>Appellate</i> judges."

<i>Burke.</i>

<cs><col>Appelate court</col>, <cd>a court having cognizance of appeals.</cd></cs>

<h1>Appellate</h1> <Xpage=71>

<hw>Ap*pel"late</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A person or prosecuted for a crime. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> See <er>Appellee</er>.</def>

<h1>Appellation</h1> <Xpage=71>

<hw>Ap`pel*la"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>appellatio</ets>, fr. <ets>appellare</ets>: cf. F. <ets>appellation</ets>. See <er>Appeal</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of appealing; appeal.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The act of calling by a name.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation.</def>

<blockquote>They must institute some persons under the <b>appellation</b> of magistrates. <i>Hume.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- See <er>Name</er>.</syn>

<h1>Appellative</h1> <Xpage=71>

<hw>Ap*pel"la*tive</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>appellativus</ets>, fr. <ets>appellare</ets>: cf. F. <ets>appelatif</ets>. See <er>Appeal</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.</def>

<i>Cudworth.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(gram.)</fld> <def>Common, as opposed to <i>proper</i>; denominative of a class.</def>

<h1>Appellative</h1> <Xpage=71>

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

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An appellation or title; a descriptive name.</def>

<blockquote>God chosen it for one of his <b>appellatives</b> to be the Defender of them. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Appellatively</h1> <Xpage=71>

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

<h1>Appellativeness</h1> <Xpage=71>

<hw>Ap*pel"la*tive*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being appellative.</def>

<i>Fuller.</i>