appealing

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
appeal/əˈpiːl/

▶verb

• 1 make a serious or heartfelt request.

  ■ Cricket (of the bowler or fielders) call on the umpire to declare a batsman out.

• 2 Law apply to a higher court for a reversal of the decision of a lower court.

• 3 (usu. appeal to) be attractive or interesting.

▶noun

• 1 an act of appealing.

• 2 Law an application to a higher court for a decision to be reversed.

• 3 the quality of being attractive or interesting.

– derivatives
appealable adjective,
appealer noun,
appealing adjective,
appealingly adverb.

– origin ME (in legal contexts): from OFr. apel (n.), apeler (v.), from L. appellare ‘to address’.