Repeal
Repeal (r?-p?l") , transitive verb
[Old French repeler to call back, French rappeler; pref. re- re- + Old French apeler, French appeler, to call, Latin appellare. See Appeal, and. compare Repel.]
1.
To recall; to summon again, as persons. [Obsolete]
The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself,
And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
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. [Obsolete]
Whence Adam soon repealed
The doubts that in his heart arose.
Repeal , noun
1.
Recall, as from exile. [Obsolete]
The tribunes are no soldiers; and their people
Will be as rash in the repeal, as hasty
To expel him thence.
2.
Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.