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Capable of being appeased or pacified; placable.
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.
The act of appeasing, or the state of being appeased; pacification.
One who appeases; a pacifier.
of Appease
Tending to appease.
Appealable.
Capability of appeal.
Relating to an appeal; appellate.
One who accuses another of felony or treason.
One who appeals, or asks for a rehearing or review of a cause by a higher tribunal.
A challenger.
One who appealed to a general council against the bull Unigenitus.
One who appeals or entreats.
A person or prosecuted for a crime. [Obs.] See Appellee.
Pertaining to, or taking cognizance of, appeals.
The act of appealing; appeal.
The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation.
The act of calling by a name.
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.