Definition of "appellate court" [appellate court]

• A court having jurisdiction to hear appeals and review a lower court's decisions. (noun)

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• "The older tribunal was now known as the General Court, and became the appellate court of the colony, the prototype of the present Supreme Court of the State."
• "Now an appellate court constituted by the pope, after long inquiry and examination of witnesses, reversed and annulled the sentence pronounced by a local tribunal under Cauchon's presidency."
• "The federal appellate court found that claims about the important reproductive health and birth-defect-preventing benefits of folic acid had been unconstitutionally suppressed by the FDA."