Definition of Repeal. Meaning of Repeal. Synonyms of Repeal

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Definition of Repeal

Repeal
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 & p. p. Repealed (-p?ld"); p. pr.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 Whence Adam soon repealed The doubts that in his heart arose.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.
Repeal
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.

Meaning of Repeal from wikipedia

- basic types of repeal; a repeal with a re-enactment is used to replace the law with an updated, amended, or otherwise related law, or a repeal without replacement...
- The Repeal ****ociation was an Irish m**** membership political movement set up by Daniel O'Connell in 1830 to campaign for a repeal of the Acts of Union...
- Repeal the repeal is the name of a campaign pushed by Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White to reinstate the death penalty in the state of New Mexico...
- 1832 Repealers 42 (39) 1835 Liberal Repealers 34 (32) 1837 Liberal Repealers 34 (32) 1841 Repealers 20 (18) 1847 Repealers 36 (35) Repealer Repeal (Ireland)...
- In the United States, the nationwide ban on alcoholic beverages, was repealed by the p****age of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution...
- The Second Statute of Repeal or the See of Rome Act 1554, was an act of the Parliament of England (1 & 2 Ph. & M. c. 8) p****ed in the Parliament of Queen...
- The following is a list of efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (commonly called the ACA or "Obamacare"), which had been enacted by the 111th United...
- The doctrine of implied repeal is a concept in constitutional theory which states that where an Act of Parliament or an Act of Congress (or of some other...
- achieved repeal in 1846 with the support of the Whigs in Parliament, overcoming the opposition of most of his own party. Economic historians see the repeal of...
- The First Statute of Repeal was an Act of the Parliament of England (1 Mar. Sess. 2. c. 2), p****ed in 1553 in the first Parliament of Mary I's reign, nullified...