v.
   - make a serious or heartfelt request. ▸Cricket  (of the bowler or fielders) call on the umpire to declare a batsman out. 
- Law  apply to a higher court for a reversal of the decision of a lower court.
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(usu. appeal to)
 be attractive or interesting.
n.
   - an act of appealing.
- Law  an application to a higher court for a decision to be reversed.
- the quality of being attractive or interesting.
Derivative
  
    - appealable adj.
- appealer n.
- appealing adj.
- appealingly adv.
 
  Etymology
  ME (in legal contexts): from OFr. apel (n.), apeler (v.), from L. appellare ‘to address’.