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/rɪpˈil/ /ripˈil/ Listen

noun

Repeal n.

Recall, as from exile. (Obs.) "The tribunes are no soldiers; and their people Will be as rash in the repeal, as hasty To expel him thence."

Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.

verb

Repeal v. t. (past & past part. repealed; pres. part. repealing)

To recall; to summon again, as persons. (Obs.) "The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, And with uplifted arms is safe arrived."

To recall, as a deed, will, law, or statute; to revoke; to rescind or abrogate by authority, as by act of the legislature; as, to repeal a law.

To suppress; to repel. (Obs.) "Whence Adam soon repealed The doubts that in his heart arose."

Synonyms: To abolish; revoke; rescind; recall; annul; abrogate; cancel; reverse. See Abolish.

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"Repeal" Quotes from Famous Books

... had, as a youth in the Guards, been a high Tory, but, siding with Sir Robert Peel on the repeal of the Corn Laws, remained with the Peelites after the bulk of the Tory party had renounced the guidance of their former chief, and now went with these Peelites in whatever direction the progress of the age might impel their strides ...

— Kenelm Chillingly, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... before sentence was passed on the point, and the order was prevented from prosecuting this or any other cause in the royal courts, because of their well-known poverty, he prayed his Highness to deign to repeal the said act, and to allow his province the liberty of having it prosecuted by its own prosecutors. A decree to that effect was passed and the trial set for the first day, when the said Doctor Don Diego ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 • Various

... sovereign has made his choice of an ambassador, it is customary for him to inquire, from courtesy, whether the ambassador will be persona grata with the sovereign to whom he will be accredited, but the receipt of a negative reply is most unusual, for it necessitates the repeal of an appointment already made. What the emperor can do toward the appointment he does before asking the question. In other words he has made the appointment before he asks the question. The negative reply, therefore, is a demand ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke

... cargo from Gaboon, than would be encountered by an ordinary merchantman from pirates in the Gulf. Indeed, there were many who believed and feared, prior to the breaking out of the present rebellion, that the next compromise between the North and South would be the repeal of all laws prohibiting the African slave-trade. So rapidly yet so insidiously was the South obtaining an entire control in the councils of ...

— Continental Monthly , Vol I, Issue I, January 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... The repeal of the provision of allowing "drawbacks" in this and other industries will probably send the industries to Canada or some other territory where this system, equivalent to the free ...

— My Four Years in Germany • James W. Gerard

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