0 a request to the public for money, information, or help:
1 a request made to a court of law or to someone in authority to change a previous decision:
2 the quality in someone or something that makes him, her, or it attractive or interesting:
3 to make a serious or formal request, especially to the public, for money, information, or help:
[ + to infinitive ] Church leaders have appealed to the government to halt the war.
I tried to appeal to (= ask for support based on) his sense of loyalty, stressing how good the company had been to him.
The police are appealing to the public for any information about the missing girl.
They're appealing for clothes and blankets to send to the devastated region.
4 to request a higher court of law to consider again a decision made by a lower court, especially in order to reduce or prevent a punishment:
This way of looking at the prehistoric world appealed to me, particularly with its emphasis on long-term change.
These are prints that appeal to oral culture.
Although this is a possible solution for a hand prosthesis, it has limited appeal as it would entail the user carrying many different specialist devices.
A different kind of appeal to conceptual truth is possible.
Unlike their earlier appeals to science, though, this time around actuaries made a conscious effort to practice what the scientists seemed to be preaching.
Parties and politicians routinely collect data on voters and use this information to target particular races, compose appeals to the electorate, and contact voters directly.
The democratic appeal of this condition is obvious.
We can point to many examples of styles in the sciences and elsewhere that are too widespread to appeal only to local explanations.
