Verb

(en verb)

(label) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

* 1611 , (w) 1:9:

And Godthe dry land appear .

* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April

, author=(Jeremy Bernstein), volume=100, issue=2, page=146, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= A Palette of Particles , passage=There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared . Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.}}

(label) To come before the public.

* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=

, title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}

(label) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.

* 1611 , 5:10:

We must all appear before the judgment seat.

* (rfdate) (Thomas Babington Macaulay):

One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear .

(label) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest.

* 1611 , 3:2:

It doth not yet appear what we shall be.

* (rfdate) (John Milton):

Of their vain contest appeared no end.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=18 citation , passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]?  Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, magazine=(American Scientist)

, author= Philip J. Bushnell , title= Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance , passage=Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene,

To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.

* 1611 , (w) 6:16:

They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=5 citation , passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.}}

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To accuse (someone of something).

*, Book VII:

*:And there opynly Sir Mador appeled the quene of the deth of hys cousyn Sir Patryse.

*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , V.9:

*:He gan that Ladie strongly to appele / Of many haynous crymes by her enured.

(transitive, legal, chiefly, US) To apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior to a superior judge or court for the purpose of reexamination of for decision.

:(Tomlins)

*

*:For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.

To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.; as, I appeal to all mankind for the truth of what is alleged. Hence: To call on one for aid; to make earnest request.

*(Samuel Horsley) (1733-1806)

*:I appeal to the Scriptures in the original.

* (1800-1859)

*:They appealed to the sword.

To be attractive.

:

*

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}

(cricket) To ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that" or "Howzat".

To summon; to challenge.

*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

*:Man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists.

To invoke.

:(Milton)