different between summon vs appeal

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman somoundre, from Old French sumundre, from Latin summon?re, itself from sub + mon?re.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m?n/
• Rhymes: -?m?n

Verb

summon (third-person singular simple present summons, present participle summoning, simple past and past participle summoned)

1. (transitive) To call people together; to convene.
   • 2007. Zerzan, John. Silence.

     Silence is primary, summoning presence to itself; so it's a connection to the realm of origin.

2. (transitive) To ask someone to come; to send for.
3. To order (goods) and have delivered
4. (transitive) To rouse oneself to exert a skill.

   Synonyms: summon up, muster, muster up

   • 1866, Pierre Bigandet, The Life or Legend of Gaudama, the Buddha of the Burmese, with annotations and notice on the Phongyies or Burmese monks, page 396

     For securing the attainment of what he considered to be a most desirable end, he summoned all his abilities with a most praiseworthy energy and perseverance.

   • 2011, Sister Louise Sweigart, cgs, Joseph: A Guiding Light, Inspiring Voices ?ISBN, page 61

     Joseph needed to summon all his reserve to keep his self-control, for no sooner had Asa voiced his request than Joseph recalled his remark to Aaron about a child being given to this couple in lieu of their giving Mary to him.

   • November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk

     City will feel nonplussed when they review the tape and Pellegrini had to summon all his restraint in the post-match interviews.

5. (fantasy, transitive) To call a resource by magic.
   • 2010, Kay Hooper, The Wizard of Seattle, Fanfare ?ISBN

     “Why won't you teach me to summon water? I can summon fire so easily, it's only logical that I should learn to put out my mistakes.”

6. (law, transitive) To summons; convene.

Derived terms

• summons
• summon up

Translations

Noun

summon (plural summons)

1. (video games) A creature magically summoned to do the summoner's bidding.
2. call, command, order (Can we add an example for this sense?)
   • quoted in 2013, Robin Sterling, People and Things from the Cullman, Alabama Tribune 1898-1913 (page 172)

     The deceased was 58 years of age, was the picture of health even five or six hours prior to his death, when suddenly the grim messenger came with a summon from a Higher Tribunal, calling him to duties above.

Anagrams

• musmon, nommus

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)

1. (law)
   1. An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
   2. The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
   3. A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.

   4. (historical) An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
   5. (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?)
   6. (historical) At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
2. A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
   1. (cricket) The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
3. (figuratively) A resort to some physical means; a recourse.
4. (figuratively) A power to attract or interest.
5. (rhetoric) A call to, or the use of, a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
6. (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)

1. (law)
   1. (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.
   2. (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).
   3. (transitive, historical) To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
   4. (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.
   5. (transitive, historical) Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).
2. (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.
   1. (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?".
3. (intransitive) To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.

4. (intransitive, figuratively) To have recourse or resort to some physical means.
5. (intransitive, figuratively) To be attractive.
6. (transitive, historical) To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.

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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

1. appeal (power to attract or interest)
2. sex appeal

Anagrams

• papale