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  • English Word Appellate Definition Pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, appeals.
  • English Word Appellate Definition A person or prosecuted for a crime. [Obs.] See Appellee.
  • English Word Appellation Definition The act of appealing; appeal.
  • English Word Appellation Definition The act of calling by a name.
  • English Word Appellation Definition The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation.
  • English Word Appellative Definition Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.
  • English Word Appellative Definition Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class.
  • English Word Appellative Definition A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.
  • English Word Appellative Definition An appellation or title; a descriptive name.
  • English Word Appellatively Definition After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.
  • English Word Appellativeness Definition The quality of being appellative.
  • English Word Appellatory Definition Containing an appeal.
  • English Word Appellee Definition The defendant in an appeal; -- opposed to appellant.
  • English Word Appellee Definition The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor.
  • English Word Appellor Definition The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime.
  • English Word Appellor Definition One who confesses a felony committed and accuses his accomplices.
  • English Word Appenage Definition See Appanage.
  • English Word Append Definition To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.
  • English Word Append Definition To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter.
  • English Word Appendage Definition Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.
  • English Word Appendage Definition A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates.
  • English Word Appendaged Definition Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage.
  • English Word Appendance Definition Something appendant.
  • English Word Appendant Definition Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper.
  • English Word Appendant Definition Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house.
  • English Word Appendant Definition Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.
  • English Word Appendant Definition A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.
  • English Word Appended Definition of Append
  • English Word Appendence Definition Alt. of Appendency
  • English Word Appendency Definition State of being appendant; appendance.