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proceeding
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???si?d??/
- Rhymes: -i?d??
Verb
proceeding
- present participle of proceed
Noun
proceeding (plural proceedings)
- The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction
- An event or happening; something that happens
- 1919, Rita Wellman, The Wings of Desire
- He had often painted himself at a mirror, a tortuous and fascinating proceeding, as every artist knows, and had been forced to admire the way in which he was made.
- 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers Chapter 50
- It was with feelings of no small astonishment, when the carriage drew up before the door with the red lamp, and the very legible inscription of ‘Sawyer, late Nockemorf,’ that Mr. Pickwick saw, on popping his head out of the coach window, the boy in the gray livery very busily employed in putting up the shutters—the which, being an unusual and an unbusinesslike proceeding at that hour of the morning, at once suggested to his mind two inferences: the one, that some good friend and patient of Mr. Bob Sawyer’s was dead; the other, that Mr. Bob Sawyer himself was bankrupt.
- 1919, Rita Wellman, The Wings of Desire
- (always in plural) A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society.
- Progress or movement from one thing to another.
- A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction
- 1848, Lord Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second
- The proceedings of the high commission.
- 1848, Lord Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second
- (law) Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit.
- December 7 2016, Kelly Phillips Erb writing in Forbes, House Says No To Renewed Efforts To Impeach IRS Commissioner
- Since impeachment is a legal proceeding, while anyone can make a motion to start the process, the Judiciary Committee determines whether there are sufficient grounds for impeachment.
- December 7 2016, Kelly Phillips Erb writing in Forbes, House Says No To Renewed Efforts To Impeach IRS Commissioner
Synonyms
- procedure
- measure
- step
Translations
See also
- transaction.
Anagrams
- prodigence
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appeal
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??pi?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??pil/
- Rhymes: -i?l
- Hyphenation: ap?peal
Etymology 1
From Middle English apel, appel (“formal accusation brought in court; a challenge to trial by combat; an appeal to a higher court or authority; plea (for mercy, protection, etc.); pealing (of bells)”) [and other forms], from Old French apel (“a call”) (modern French appel (“a call; an appeal”)), from apeler (“to call; to call out”), from Latin appell?re, adpell?re, respectively the present active infinitives of appell? (“to address as, call by name; to drive, move to; to land or put ashore”) and adpell? (“to drive, move to; to land or put ashore”), from ad- (prefix meaning ‘to; towards’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?éd (“at; to”)) + pell? (“to drive, impel, push; to hurl, propel; to banish, expel; to eject, thrust out”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pelh?- (“to approach”), from *pel- (“to beat; to drive; to push”)).
Noun
appeal (countable and uncountable, plural appeals)
- (law)
- An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
- A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.
- (historical) An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
- (historical) A process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offence against the public; an accusation.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)
- (historical) At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
- A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
- (cricket) The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
- (figuratively) A resort to some physical means; a recourse.
- (figuratively) A power to attract or interest.
- (rhetoric) A call to, or the use of, a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
- (historical) A summons to defend one's honour in a duel, or one's innocence in a trial by combat; a challenge.
Alternative forms
- appeale (obsolete, 16th–17th c.)
- appeall (obsolete)
Derived terms
Related terms
- appellant
- appellate
- appellee
- appellor
Translations
See also
- approvement
Etymology 2
From Middle English apelen, appelen (“to accuse; to make a formal charge before a court, etc., impeach; to challenge to trial by combat; to apply to a higher court or authority for review of a decision; to call upon for a decision, favour, help, etc.; to call by a name”) [and other forms], from Old French apeler (“to call; to call out”); see further at etymology 1.
Verb
appeal (third-person singular simple present appeals, present participle appealing, simple past and past participle appealed)
- (law)
- (intransitive) Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- (transitive, originally US) To apply to a superior court or judge to review and overturn (a decision or order by an inferior court or judge).
- (transitive, historical) To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
- (transitive, historical) Of a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.
- (transitive, historical) Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).
- (intransitive) Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- (intransitive) To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a fielding side; to ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that?" or "Howzat?".
- (intransitive) To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To have recourse or resort to some physical means.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be attractive.
- (transitive, historical) To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
References
Further reading
- appeal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- appeal (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- appeal at OneLook Dictionary Search
- appeal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English appeal.
Noun
appeal
- appeal (power to attract or interest)
- sex appeal
Anagrams
- papale
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