rare. [f. L. appellāt- ppl. stem of appellā-re to call: see APPEAL v.] To call, to designate.
1765. Tucker, Lt. Nat., I. 475. The vast Pacific Ocean, commonly … appellated (as the saying is) and annominated, the South-sea.
1834–43. Southey, Doctor, cxxxvi. (1849), I. 339. What some of our own writers … appellate an entire horse.
