appellate

From Latin appellātus.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /əˈpɛlət/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlət

appellate (not comparable)

1. That can be (legally) appealed to, especially of a court that hears appeals of decisions by a lower court.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 228:

     In this game of bluff and counter-bluff, the parlementaires calculated that their absence – which entailed much of the country being without an appellate jurisdiction – would force the government to treat for terms.

appellate

1. inflection of appellare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

appellate f pl

1. feminine plural of appellato

appellāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of appellō

appellāte

1. vocative masculine singular of appellātus