Appellatory

Quick meaning: Appellatory is an adjective meaning (law) Containing or pertaining to a legal appeal.

Meaning

(law) Containing or pertaining to a legal appeal.

More Meanings

1. Serving to ask or demand something.
2. A written petition or appeal.

Example Sentences

An appellatory libel ought to contain […]the name of the party appellant.

The proclamation civis Romanus sum was essentially an appellatory formula: Paul was stressing his right to appeal to a higher judicial authority for protection against the illegal action of the Duoviri.

Inflexions limited to the interval of a semi-tone, or of a minor third (a tone and a half,) are plaintive; and those which range through the greater intervals of the major third (two tones,) fourth, fifth, &c., express proportionate degrees of intensity in the appellatory or assertive effect .

This means that all of them are subject to the same appellatory force that marks prophetic speech and accordingly go beyond pronouncements of particular semantic contents, being not just narrative or hymn but also testimonies of the speaker that these speeches are the word of Go, presented before hearers who must be won over by this testimony.

Word Forms

• appellatories

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include appealable, appellate, appetizing, appertinent, responsory, reversible.

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