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.