See Also: repeal(medicine)
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repeal verb trans. LME.
[Anglo-Norman repeler for Old French rapeler (mod. rappeler), formed as RE- + ap(p)eler APPEAL verb.]
Annul, rescind (a law, sentence, etc.); revoke, withdraw. LME.
W. Geldart The work of the Law Commission has..led to much obsolete legislation being repealed.
Retract (a statement); give up, abandon (a thought, feeling, etc.). LME-M17.
Milton Adam..repeal'd The doubts that in his heart arose.
a. Recall to a proper state or course; call on (a person) to do. rare. LME-L16.
b. Recall (a person) from exile. L15-M17.
refl.: Shakespeare Richard II The banish'd Bolingbroke repeals himself.
c. Call or summon back. L16-E18.
d. Try to get (a person) restored. rare (Shakes.). Only in E17.
repeala'bility noun the fact or condition of being repealable M19.
repealable adjective able to be repealed or revoked L16.
repealer noun a person who repeals something or who advocates repeal; spec. (Hist.) an advocate of the repeal of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland: M18.