a. [f. APPEAL v. + -ABLE.]

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  1.  That can be appealed against, or carried for decision to a higher tribunal.

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1622.  Howell, Lett. (1650), I. 86. To clip the power of the council of state … by making it appealable to the council of Spain.

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1783.  W. Martyn, Geog. Mag., II. 80. The king’s Revision Court to which all civil causes are appealable.

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1883.  Law Times, LXXV. 181/1. On appeal, the Court had great doubt whether the order, being discretionary, was appealable.

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  2.  That can be appealed to; responsive to appeal.

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1846.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., V. IX. xii. § 6. No impulses but those of the brute (says the modern political economist) are appealable to in the world.

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