Appel Definition

ə-pĕl
noun
A quick stamp of the foot used in fencing as a feint to produce an opening.
American Heritage
A slap or tap of the ball of the front foot as the first of two advancing steps in making a lunge.
Webster's New World

(fencing) An act of striking the ground with the leading foot to frighten, distract, or mislead one's opponent.

Wiktionary
verb

Obsolete spelling of appeal.

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Origin of Appel

  • French from appeler to call from Old French apeler to appeal appeal

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Appel Sentence Examples

  • See Theodore Appel, The Life and Work of John Williamson Nevin (Philadelphia, 1889), containing Nevin's more important articles.

  • There was, however, a species of appel comme d'abus.

  • She there wrote her Appel a l'impartiale posterite, those memoirs which display a strange alternation between self-laudation and patriotism, between the trivial and the sublime.

  • The appellatio tanquam ab abusu (appel comme d'abus) in France was an application of a like nature.

  • The prohibition of papal interference was enforced if necessary by the appel comme d'abus (vide supra).

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