单词 | appellant |
释义 | appellantadj.n. A. adj. 1. Law and gen. Appealing: a. Accusing, challenging. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > appeal or review > [adjective] > relating to appeal or appellant > appealing appellant1597 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 34 Free from other misbegotten hate, Come I appellant [1623 appealant] to this princely presence. View more context for this quotation b. Appealing to a higher tribunal against an unsatisfactory decision.In Lords Appellants, originally adj., but soon treated as n.: cf. accountant adj. and n. See sense B. 1. ΚΠ 1700 R. Brady Contin. Hist. Eng. Index sig. * Appellant Lords in Richard II.'s Reign. 1808 J. Bentham Sc. Reform 111 Power to the House of Lords..to decree payment..by any of the parties appellant. c. Asking or crying for assistance. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > [adjective] > appealing appealing1598 imprecatorya1625 applicatory1653 invocatory1691 invocative1821 appellant1871 1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos xi. 143 An appellant voice represented as rising loud before Him who sitteth on the throne. 2. Law. As regards appeals; appellate. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > appeal or review > [adjective] > relating to appeal or appellant appellatory1570 appellant1818 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. v. 487 Their jurisdiction in private causes was merely appellant. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. x. 53 The presbyterian tribunals were made subject to the appellant control of parliament. B. n. 1. a. One who ‘appeals’ another of treason or felony: see appeal v. 1. Obsolete exc. Historical. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] > one who accuses of crime wrayerc1000 appellorc1400 criminatora1425 appeacher1440 taintor1451 denunciator1474 approverc1475 appealer1519 denouncer1533 detector1541 impeacher1552 peacher1570 delatora1572 approvant1587 appellant1597 exhibitera1616 exhibitant1818 incriminator1838 rapper1904 1387–8 Rot. Parl. III. 236 (xi. Rich. II.) Les ditz Duc & Countes Appellantz.] 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iv. i. 95 Lords Appellants [1623 Appealants], Your differences shall all rest vnder gage. View more context for this quotation 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 287 b Wrongs done to the Appellants themselves, as Robbery, Rape. 1691 Blount's Νομο-λεξικον (ed. 2) Appellant, Is he who hath committed some Felony..and now Appeals, that is, Accuses others who were complices. 1700 R. Brady Contin. Hist. Eng. 371 The Protestation of the 5 Lords Appellants. 1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. H i b If the appellant [in an Appeal of Death] does not prosecute his appeal, or if he release to the appellant, the appellee may be indicted. 1840 Blackwood's Mag. 47 279 A person was charged with having poisoned a man; the accuser, called the appellant, [etc.]. 1875 J. Gairdner Houses Lancaster & York ii, §7 ⁋1 Three of the five ‘lords appellants’ of 1387. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > [noun] > champion or fighter in single combat campionc1320 defendantc1450 combatant1489 appellant1520 defender?c1525 principal1590 duellist1593 champion1597 combater1598 dueller1614 battailant1620 pistol man1784 monomachist1828 1520 Chron. Eng. vii. f. 143/2 A great batayll..bytwene two squyers..Gloucestre that was the appellaunt and Arthur the defendaunt. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. iii. 49 Ready are the Appellant and Defendant..to enter the Lists. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1220 Answer thy appellant..Who now defies thee thrice to single fight. View more context for this quotation 2. a. One who appeals to a higher court against the decision of a lower one; also, gen. One who appeals for vindication or corroboration. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > appeal or review > [noun] > appeal > one who appeals appellant1611 appealer1805 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bailler griefs en plaiderie, an Appealant to alledge the wrongs..done vnto him by the sentence from which he hath appealed. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 72 Pending the Appeal nothing can be attempted in Prejudice of the Appellant. 1826 R. Southey Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 523 You called for such proofs... I am not the appellant in this controversy. 1846 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors V. clv. 490 To retain him as junior to prepare the appellant's case. b. Church History in plural. The Jansenists and others who appealed to a general council against the ‘Unigenitus’ bull issued by Pope Clement XI. against Quesnel's French translation of the New Testament. ΚΠ 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. 3. gen. One who appeals, who makes a request, entreaty, or specially pointed address. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > one who requests > [noun] > one who petitions or appeals beseecher1382 petitioner1414 suitor1414 orator1417 suppliantc1422 supplicant1475 soliciter1536 solicitor1551 oratricle1574 pleader1584 supplicationer1585 beggar1589 incaller?1591 supplicator1593 petitor1596 beadsman1600 impetrator1605 implorer1611 imploratora1616 replicant1622 invokera1649 prostrate1648 deprecator1656 appellant1704 memorialist1706 applicationer1710 postulant1733 invocant1751 solicitant1821 petitionist1822 memorializer1859 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub Ep. Ded. 5 An humble and an earnest Appellant for the Laurel. 1853 C. Brontë Villette I. viii. 140 I have seen her feelings appealed to, and I have smiled in half-pity, half-scorn at the appellants. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1520 |
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