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repealing

 

  1  definition  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  &  p.  p.  {Repealed} 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  Whence  Adam  soon  repealed  The  doubts  that  in  his 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}.




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