repeal Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation
    abrogation; annulment.
  2. verb cancel officially
    annul; revoke; reverse; countermand; lift; vacate; overturn; rescind.
    • He revoked the ban on smoking
    • lift an embargo
    • vacate a death sentence

WordNet

Re*peal" transitive verb
Etymology
OF. repeler to call back, F. rappeler; pref. re- re- + OF. apeler, F. appeler, to call, L. appellare. See Appeal, and. cf. Repel.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Repealed present participle & verbal noun Repealing
Definitions
  1. To recall; to summon again, as persons. Obs.
    The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, And with uplifted arms is safe arrived. Shak.
  2. 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.
  3. To suppress; to repel. Obs.
    Whence Adam soon repealed The doubts that in his heart arose. Milton.
    Syn. -- To abolish; revoke; rescind; recall; annul; abrogate; cancel; reverse. See Abolish.
Re*peal" noun
Definitions
  1. Recall, as from exile. Obs.
    The tribunes are no soldiers; and their people Will be as rash in the repeal, as hassty To expel him thence. Shak.
  2. Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.

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