Repeal /(r?-p?l")/

imp. & p. p. Repealed; p. pr. & vb. n. Repealing

1. To recall; to summon again, as persons. [Obs.]

   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. [Obs.]

   Whence Adam soon repealed The doubts that in his heart arose.

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.

2. Revocation; abrogation; as, the repeal of a statute; the repeal of a law or a usage.