Vocabulary : Appellation to Appendage

Appellation : The act of appealing; appeal. ;; The act of calling by a name. ;; The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation.
Appellative : Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. ;; Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class. ;; A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie. ;; An appellation or title; a descriptive name.
Appellatively : After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.
Appellativeness : The quality of being appellative.
Appellatory : Containing an appeal.

Appellee : The defendant in an appeal; -- opposed to appellant. ;; The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor.
Appellor : The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime. ;; One who confesses a felony committed and accuses his accomplices.
Appenage : See Appanage.
Append : To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column. ;; To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex; as, notes appended to this chapter.
Appendage : Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house. ;; A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates.

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