APPELLATION

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act of appealing; appeal. [Obs.] Spenser.

2.
n.

The act of calling by a name.

3.
n.

The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation. They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates. Hume.


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