Definition of appealed:
(n) :
A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
(n) :
(figuratively) A power to attract or interest.
(v) :
(intransitive) To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.
(n) :
(cricket) The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
(v) :
(intransitive) To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
(v) :
(intransitive, figuratively) To be attractive.