appellant

• appellaunt (obsolete)

From Anglo-Norman, from Old French apelant.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈpɛln̩t/

appellant (not comparable)

1. (law) of or relating to appeals; appellate
   • 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:

     appellant jurisdiction.

2. in the process of appealing
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 23, column 1:

     Firſt, heauen be the record to my ſpeech,
     In the deuotion of a ſubiects loue,
     Tendering the precious ſafetie of my Prince,
     And free from other misbegotten hate,
     Come I appealant to rhis [sic] Princely preſence.

appellant (plural appellants)

1. (law) a litigant or party that is making an appeal in court

   Synonym: plaintiff in error

   The appellant made her submissions to the court.

2. One who makes an earnest entreaty of any kind.
3. (obsolete) One who challenges another to single combat.
4. (historical) One of the clergy in the Jansenist controversy who rejected the bull Unigenitus issued in 1713, appealing to a pope "better informed", or to a general council.

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appellant

1. present participle of appeller

appellant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of appellō

Borrowed from Italian appellante.

• IPA^(key): /ap.pɛlˈlant/

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appellant m (plural appellanti, feminine appellanta)

1. (law) appelant

appellant (feminine singular appellanta, plural appellanti)

1. (law) appelant