Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having the power to hear court appeals and to review court decisions.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To call by a name; call; name; entitle.
- Pertaining to appeals; having cognizance of appeals: as, an appellate court.
- n. A person appealed or prosecuted for a crime; an appellee.
Wiktionary
- adj. That can be (legally) appealed to, especially of a court that hears appeals of decisions by a lower court.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, appeals.
- n. A person or prosecuted for a crime. [Obs.] See appellee.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals)
Etymologies
- From Latin appellātus. (Wiktionary)
- Latin appellātus, past participle of appellāre, to entreat; see appeal. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In In re Antrobus, the Tenth Circuit rejected carefully reasoned decisions from the Second and Ninth Circuits and held that crime victims could only obtain appellate relief if they show that the district court had made a “clear and indisputable” error.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Crime Victim’s Right to Appellate Review?
“Today, they cannot retain appellate counsel or pay the costs of appeal.”
Forensic interview with girl in Tony Alamo case leaked to website
“His entire practice of law appear to consist of two years or so in appellate litigation, so it would appear that he has zero “trial experience as a lawyer.””
“Bozo The Neoclown says: timmeh defines “obstructionism” as telling the repukeliscums “no” while they try to sit activist judges in appellate courts”
“Of course, the word appears much more often in appellate opinions — I see 322 mentions in ALLCASES, 45 of them appearing in documents that also contain “Selya” and apparently only 4 from Fernandez.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Russian Influence on American Law
“Brief writing specifically is generally taught in appellate advocacy classes.”
“She called the appellate court decision "a major milestone for our campaign," and said she respects the rule of law and hopes Mr. Emanuel's supporters will consider joining her.”
The Wall Street Journal: Big Bump in Rahm's Road to City Hall
“A study of their use in appellate briefs (PDF, 334 KB) reports that “as things become less clear, judges tend to use ‘clearly,’ and ‘obviously’ more often.””
“- Parties do not allege in appellate courts, they argue.”
“Then a lawyer specializing in appellate work, the conservative Roberts helped represent the gay rights activists as part of his law firm's pro bono work.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘appellate’.
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JURI - courtroom speak
Legal glossary with special focus on courtroom vocabulary
accused, acquittal, ADA, adjournment, adjudication, affidavit, affirmed, aggravated range, aggravating factors, allegation, alleged, answer and 794 more...
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wallace
Remington, Windsor, prorector, wen, aver, mottle, seltzer, tepee, lapidary, effete, sotto, presbyopia and 355 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
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quality words
This is a mix of new words I've read studying for the GRE verbal and words I use normally. I also check back on these words if I don't use them often enough.
ineffable, septuagenarian, sesquipedalian, argyle, coalescence, profundity, vivisepulture, defenestrate, concatenate, usurp, diatribe, veracious and 461 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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legal words
inchoate, incarceration, judgment, sentence, attempt, finding, imprisonment, due process, certification, probable cause, abnormality, whereas and 59 more...
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Double Double
Words with two (or more) sets of double letters. No suffixes!
accommodate, attendee, innkeeper, address, appall, boondoggle, appellate, billhook, crosscurrent, tattoo, balloon, kookaburra and 14 more...
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Words to remember
didactic, oecumenical, propitiate, potlatch, solfatara, ascetic, commensurate, syncretism, uxoricide, usurious, munificence, proscribe and 36 more...
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Call or Designate
Word related to call or designate.
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biocon In addition, appellate is a verb meaning to call or designate (OED). Jul 30, 2012