Betake vs Appeal - What's the difference?
betake | appeal |
To beteach.
(obsolete) To take over to; take across (to); deliver.
(obsolete) To seize; lay hold of; take.
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 194:
(reflexive, archaic) To take one's self to; go or move; repair; resort; have recourse.
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 12:
(reflexive, archaic) To commit to a specified action.
(archaic) To commend or entrust to; to commit to.
(archaic) To take oneself.
(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)
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*: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.
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, 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)
(legal) (a) An application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for re-examination or review. (b) The mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected. (c) The right of appeal. (d) An accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public. (e) An accusation of a felon at common law by one of his accomplices, which accomplice was then called an approver.
A summons to answer to a charge.
A call upon a person or an authority for proof or decision, in one's favor; reference to another as witness; a call for help or a favor; entreaty.
* Francis Bacon
# (cricket) The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
Resort to physical means; recourse.
The power to attract or interest.
As verbs the difference between betake and appeal
is that betake is to beteach or betake can be (obsolete) to take over to; take across (to); deliver while appeal is (obsolete) to accuse (someone of something).As a noun appeal is
(legal) (a) an application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for re-examination or review (b) the mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected (c) the right of appeal (d) an accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public (e) an accusation of a felon at common law by one of his accomplices, which accomplice was then called an approver.betake
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) betaken, bitaken, in form equivalent to .Verb
Etymology 2
From .Verb
- a rain-cloud [...] had betaken a dusky brown color, and about its lower verge a fringe of fine straight lines of rain was suggested [...].
- I was glad of my arrival for I was wearied with the way, and yellow of face for weakness and want; but my plight was pitiable and I knew not whither to betake me.
- They betook themselves to treaty and submission. — Burke.
- The rest, in imitation, to like arms / Betook them. — Milton.
Synonyms
* wendappeal
English
Alternative forms
* appeale (obsolete) * appeall (obsolete) * appelVerb
(en verb)Derived terms
* appeal toNoun
(en noun)- (Tomlins)
- (Bouvier)
- (John Dryden)
- a kind of appeal to the Deity, the author of wonders