Repeal

Definition of Repeal

Re`peal´ Pronunciation: r?-p?l´

v. t.	1.	To recall; to summon again, as persons. [imp. & p. p. Repealed (-p?ld"); p. pr. & vb. n. Repealing.] 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. Whence Adam soon repealed The doubts that in his heart arose. - Milton.
n.	1.	Recall, as from exile. 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.

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