appellatory

Example Sentences

• "An appellatory libel ought to contain […]the name of the party appellant."
• "On this point, the appeal, although it was drawn up by an attorney, limited to criticism of an appellatory nature, without attempting to demonstrate that the interpretation or application of the law is untenable; it thus obviously confuses the Federal Court, which is a court of constitutional law, with an appeals court or a corrective authority having full power of cognizance and unlimited examining authority."
• "The proclamation civis Romanus sum was essentially an appellatory formula: Paul was stressing his right to appeal to a higher judicial authority for protection against the illegal action of the Duoviri."
• "With respect to the supremacy of the Pope, it has not, I believe, been asserted, even by those who possess most facility of assertion, that his interference in the nomination of Bishops, any farther than the form of recognition, or his exercise of an appellatory jurisdiction upon matters relating to discipline, are, in any degree , necessary to the existence or purity of a Catholic hierarchy."
• "In the event of my not acceding, which was altogether the case, to the prayer of any one of these hospitable petitions, indeed I may say injunctions, as they were pretty generally adverted to by an appellatory clap on the shoulder, I was immediately put down, by the individual in question, as a "mean critter, and entirely unworthy of any gentleman's notice;""
• "Inflexions limited to the interval of a semi-tone, or of a minor third (a tone and a half,) are plaintive; and those which range through the greater intervals of the major third (two tones,) fourth, fifth, &c., express proportionate degrees of intensity in the appellatory or assertive effect ."