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appellation|æpəˈleɪʃən|
[a. Fr. appellation (13th c.), ad. L. appellātion-em, n. of action f. appellāre: see appeal v. and -tion.]
I. Appealing, appeal. [from OFr. apeler.] Obs.
†1. The action of appealing to a higher court or authority against the decision of an inferior one; the appeal so made; = appeal n. 3. Obs.
1494Fabyan vii. 479 In iugement vpon the appellacions before made by the erle of Armenak..agayne prynce Edwarde. 1538Starkey England 125 Another grete mysordur, in appellatyon of such as be callyd spiritual causys. 1547Homilies i. ix. (1859) 92 The condemnation both of body and soul, without either appellation or hope of redemption. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 65 In Ecclesiasticall causes appellation is admitted within fourtie dayes. 1669Honyman Surv. Naphtali II. 105 Pauls appellation to Cæsar, Acts xxv. ii. 1679Filmer Freeholder 66 There might be Appellation made to the Kings Person.
†b. Ground of appeal, title, claim. Obs. rare.
1630Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 26 He could not find out any appellation to assume the Crown in his own Person.
†2. gen. The action or process of appealing or calling on; entreaty, or earnest address. Obs.
1587M. Grove Pelops & Hipp. (1878) 18 No god there was but him they had in appellation. 1589Hay any Work 43 His appellation to the obedient cleargie. 1671True Non-Conf. 399 Master Knox his reasoning..in his appellation and admonition to the commonalty.
II. Calling, designation. [from later Fr. appeler, or L. appellāre.]
3. The action of calling by a name; nomenclature.
1581Campion in Confer. iii. (1584) U iiij, Euery piece of bread is called bread..because it was bread by appellation. 1630Prynne Anti-Armin, 126 If it be grace in truth, as well as in appellation. 1742Hume Ess. (1817) I. 36 The government, which in common appellation receives the appellation of free. 1875Whitney Life Lang. ii. 27 They must be carefully distinguished in appellation.
4. A designation, name, or title given:
a. to a particular person or thing.
1447O. Bokenham Lyvys of Seyntys 44 Anne is as myche to seyn as grace And worthyly thys appellacyoun To hyr pertenyth. 1610Histriom. i. 136 Seri. Your appellations? Post. Your names he meanes. The man's learn'd. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. I. i. 15 Stenny, an appellation he allways used of and towards the Duke. 1774Priestley Observ. Air 178 By the common appellation of phlogisticated air. 1833–48H. Coleridge North. Worth. (1852) I. 69 Which entitles him to the appellation of a prose Juvenal.
b. to a class: A descriptive or connotative name.
1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 665 Manes the Hereticke, whereof the Maniches haue their appellation. 1651Hobbes Govt. & Soc. vii. §3. 112 If he..Rule well..they afford him the appellation of a King; if not, they count him a Tyrant. 1709Swift T. Tub. iii. 50 These men seem..to have understood the appellation of critic in a liberal sense. 1841Borrow Zincali I. vi. §1. 102 If not sorcerers, they have always done their best to merit that appellation. |