English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
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Appeasable
(a.)
Capable of being appeased or pacified; placable.
Appease
(v. t.)
To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace;
to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred); as, to appease the
tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst.
Appeasement
(n.)
The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased;
pacification.
Appeaser
(n.)
One who appeases; a pacifier.
Appeasing
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Appease
Appeasive
(a.)
Tending to appease.
Appellable
(a.)
Appealable.
Appellancy
(n.)
Capability of appeal.
Appellant
(a.)
Relating to an appeal; appellate.
Appellant
(n.)
One who accuses another of felony or treason.
Appellant
(n.)
One who appeals, or asks for a rehearing or review of a
cause by a higher tribunal.
Appellant
(n.)
A challenger.
Appellant
(n.)
One who appealed to a general council against the bull
Unigenitus.
Appellant
(n.)
One who appeals or entreats.
Appellate
(n.)
A person or prosecuted for a crime. [Obs.] See Appellee.
Appellate
(a.)
Pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, appeals.
Appellation
(n.)
The act of appealing; appeal.
Appellation
(n.)
The word by which a particular person or thing is
called and known; name; title; designation.
Appellation
(n.)
The act of calling by a name.
Appellative
(n.)
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.