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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 repealed; pres.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 "Whence Adam soon repealed The doubts that in his heart arose."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

... Jews from his kingdom. A short time before this, the English people had offered to pay an annual fine to the King on condition of his expelling the Jews from the country; but the Jews outbid them, and thus obtained the repeal of the edict of banishment. However, on this last occasion there was no mercy shown, and the Jews, sixteen thousand in number, were expelled from England, and the King ...

— Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period • Paul Lacroix

... to abolish imprisonment for debt was a protracted one lasting more than a quarter of a century, and was acrimoniously opposed by the propertied classes, as a whole. By 1836, however, many State legislatures had been induced to repeal or modify the provisions of the various debtors' imprisonment acts. In response to a recommendation by President Andrew Jackson that the practise be abolished in the District of Columbia, a House Select Committee reported on January 17, ...

— History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I - Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times • Myers Gustavus

... her "example of positive action," this time against the Kansas-Nebraska bill, pending in Congress, which threatened repeal of the Missouri Compromise by admitting Kansas and Nebraska as territories with the right to choose for themselves whether they would be slave or free. "I feel that woman should in the very capitol of the nation lift her voice against ...

— Susan B. Anthony - Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian • Alma Lutz

... the protection of the island. Then arose the great volunteer movement. Every Irishman entitled to bear arms enrolled himself in some regiment raised with the ostensible design of opposing a hostile landing, but really intended by the patriots to force the repeal of Poyning's Act from England, to obtain for the Parliament in Dublin ...

— Irish Race in the Past and the Present • Aug. J. Thebaud

... that he frequently made use of proclamations to enforce his will upon the people.[277] It was quite proper and necessary for the Governor, when the houses were not in session, to issue ordinances of a temporary character, but this was a power susceptible of great abuse. And for the Governor to repeal statutes by proclamation would be fatal to the liberties of the people. That Harvey was guilty of this usurpation seems probable from the fact that a law was enacted declaring it the duty of the people to disregard all proclamations ...

— Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 • Thomas J. Wertenbaker

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