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emoval of a cause from an inferior to a superior judge or court for the purpose of reëxamination of for decision. Tomlins. I appeal unto Cæsar. Acts xxv. 11.

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.

Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. Cudworth.

Specifically: An instinctive inclination or propensity in animals to perform certain actions, as in the young to suck, in aquatic fowls to enter into water and to swim; the tendency of an organized body to seek what satisfies the wants of its organism. These lacteals have mouths, and by animal selection or appetency th…

The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.

part of a building, esp. of a church, having in the plan a polygonal or semicircular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy. Hence:

Of or pertaining to the apse of a church; as, the apsidal termination of the chancel.

Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination. [Archaic]

Determination; decision; arbitration. The arbitrament of time. Everett. Gladly at this moment would MacIvor have put their quarrel to personal arbitrament. Sir W. Scott.

The hearing and determination of a cause between parties in controversy, by a person or persons chosen by the parties.

To origination of living matter from non-living. See Abiogenesis. Bastian.

Relating to the archenteron; as, archenteric invagination.

or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.

The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of German origin, being orig. the same word as English hard. It usually has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard.…

Divination by means of numbers.

A soldier armed with an arquebus. Soldiers armed with guns, of whatsoever sort or denomination, appear to have been called arquebusiers. E. Lodge.

Arrest. [R.] The arrestation of the English resident in France was decreed by the National Convention. H. M. Williams.

o as, so that. [Obs.] The relations are so uncertain as they require a great deal of examination. Bacon.

Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts.

The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade; as, a road has an ascent of five degrees.