appellate

From Latin appellātus.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /əˈpɛlət/

appellate (not comparable)

1. That can be (legally) appealed to, especially of a court that hears appeals of decisions by a lower court.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 228:

     In this game of bluff and counter-bluff, the parlementaires calculated that their absence – which entailed much of the country being without an appellate jurisdiction – would force the government to treat for terms.

• appellate court

appellate

1. second-person plural present indicative of appellare
2. second-person plural imperative of appellare
3. feminine plural of appellato

appellāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of appellō

appellāte

1. vocative masculine singular of appellātus