3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Repeal  \Re*peal"\  (r?-p?l"),  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Repealed} 
  (-p?ld");  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Repealing}.]  [OF.  repeler  to  call 
  back  F.  rappeler  pref.  re-  re-  +  OF  apeler  F.  appeler  to 
  call  L.  appellare  See  {Appeal},  and  cf  {Repel}.] 
  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  Whence  Adam  soon  repealed  The  doubts  that  in  his 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}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Repeal  \Re*peal"\,  n. 
  1.  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.  --Shak. 
 
  2.  Revocation;  abrogation;  as  the  repeal  of  a  statute;  the 
  repeal  of  a  law  or  a  usage. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  repeal 
  n  :  an  official  or  legal  cancellation  [syn:  {abrogation},  {annulment}] 
  v  :  annul  by  recalling  or  rescinding;  "He  revoked  the  ban  on 
  smoking";  "lift  an  embargo"  [syn:  {revoke},  {annul},  {lift}, 
  {countermand},  {reverse},  {overturn},  {rescind}] 

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