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▪ I. repeal, n.|rɪˈpiːl|
Forms: 5 repeell, 6 repell(e, repele, repeall, 6–7 repeale, 6– repeal.
[a. AF. repel = OF. rapel (mod.F. rappel) a recall, f. repeler, rapeler: see next.]
†1. Recall, as from banishment. Obs.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 117 b/1 Yf they shold assente to your repeell they shold but a whyle dwelle wyth you. 1530Palsgr. 262/1 Repell, callyng agayne, repel. 1590Marlowe Edw. II, i. iv, I am enjoin'd To sue unto you all for his repeal. 1606G. W[oodcocke] Hist. Ivstine xvi. 67 At his repeale and calling home into his Countrey, which he shortly expected. 1612North's Plutarch, Dionysius 1143 The decree of repeale was authorized by the people, and the banished men returned to Syracvsa. 1658Cokaine Trappolin iii. i, To petition for the repeal of my dear Trappolin.
2. a. The (or an) act of repealing (a law, resolution, sentence, etc.); abrogation.
1503–4Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 28 §1 The seid reversall repelle adnullacion & advoydaunce of this seid Acte. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. lxxxvi. [lxxxii.] 255 These wrytynges sholde be permanent without ony repell. 1535–6Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 26 §29 So that every such suspending repeale and revocacion..shalbe made in writing. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 65 Again there are rehearsed diuerse repelles of his decrees. 1641Nicholas Papers (Camden) I. 5 The said act of Repeale shalbee sent over to bee passed there. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. ix. 335 These Civil Ordinances become obsolete without any repeal. 1710Prideaux Orig. Tithes i. 21 Every part [of that law] had not its particular repeal. 1769Junius Lett. xxxv. (1788) 178 Nothing less than a repeal, as formal as the resolution itself, can heal the wound. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. xiv. (1876) III. 54 The repeal of the test would not have placed the two religions on a fair level. 1861Trench Ep. 7 Churches Asia 11 There was for them no repeal of the sentence of death, but a respite only.
b. spec. The cancelling of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland as an Irish political demand, esp. in the agitations headed by O'Connell in 1830 and 1841–6. Also attrib.
1831Fraser's Mag. IV. 627/2 The repeal of the Union taking the place which was formerly occupied by the Roman Catholic claims. Repeal immediately became the engrossing topic. 1845Macaulay in Trevelyan Life (1876) II. 164 Ireland, we fear, is on the brink of something like a servile war—the effect, not of Repeal agitation, but of the severe distress. 1848W. J. O'N. Daunt Recoll. O'Connell I. i. 3 The champion of Repeal excited my enthusiasm.
†c. Revocation, withdrawal. Obs. rare—1.
1612Davies Why Ireland, etc. 203 The Earle of Desmond aboue al men, found himselfe grieued with this resumption, or Repeale of Liberties.
3. Means or possibility of release (from punishment). rare.
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 66 The onely repeale we haue from Gods vndefinite chastisement, is to chastise our selues in this world. 1819Byron Proph. Dante i. 6 That deep gulf without repeal, Where late my ears rung with the damned cries Of souls in hopeless bale.
4. Comb., as Repeal Warden Irish Hist., a local official of the Loyal National Repeal Association. Cf. sense 2 b.
1841D. O'Connell in P. S. O'Hegarty Hist. Ireland under Union (1952) xiv. 103 The Office of Repeal Warden..must be purely ministerial. They must not..be considered, as Representatives or Delegates. 1903M. MacDonagh Life Daniel O'Connell xx. 392 The article further suggested that the Repeal wardens should be instructed in the military uses and abuses of railways. 1966L. J. McCaffrey Daniel O'Connell & Repeal Year ii. 70 The most important cogs in the Repeal machinery on the local level were the priests. They organized and participated in Repeal meetings, and they selected the parish Repeal Wardens.
▪ II. repeal, v.1|rɪˈpiːl|
Forms: 4–5 repele, 5 rappel, rapelle, 5–6 repell, 6 repel, 6–7 repeale, 6– repeal.
[ad. AF. repel(l)er = OF. rapeler (mod.F. rappeler), f. re- re- + appeler to appeal.]
1. trans. To revoke, rescind, annul (something determined or appointed, esp. a law or sentence).
13..Body & Soul in Anglia II. 243 Now I se I am but lorn, Þere may no man þis doom repele. c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 532 (560) For sen myn fadyr..haþ hire chaunge enseled, He nil not for me his lettre ben repelid. 1427Rolls of Parlt. IV. 322/2 Alle ye Statutes made..and noght repelled. 1474Caxton Chesse 43 The knyght had leuer to forsake his owne contre and to dye so than to repele his lawes. 1483― G. de la Tour A viij, Wherfore God took mercy on them and repeled his sentence. 1529in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. xiv. 257 [To] obserue all the..Rules, and ordynaunces.. heretofore made and not Repelled. 1557N.T. (Genev.) Epistle *iv, Y⊇ Olde [Testament]..was in it selfe infirme and vnperfect, and therfore was abolished and repelled. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. iii. 40 Prouided, that my Banishment repeal'd, And Lands restor'd againe, be freely graunted. 1625Hart Anat. Ur ii. ix. 110 The Parson repeales his former sentence. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxvi. 138 The Soveraign..having power to make, and repeale Lawes. 1708Swift Sacram. Test Wks. 1751 IV. 157, I..shall give you my Opinion freely about repealing the Sacramental Test. 1781Cowper Expost. 224 Thence date their sad declension and their fall, Their woes not yet repealed. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. v. (1876) I. 266 It was deemed..expedient to repeal the ancient statute. 1842J. Bischoff Woollen Manuf. II. 75 If the duties upon oil..and dye-wares were repealed.
†b. To recall, withdraw (a privilege, grant, etc.).
c1325Song of Yesterday 177 in E.E.P. (1862) 137 Þis poyntes may no mon hym repele He comeþ so baldely to pike his pray. 1454Rolls of Parlt. V. 255/1 That eny auctorite or power..bee..by th' auctorite therof voied, rappelled, revoked. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. ccxxii. [ccxviii.] 686 Therfore here openly he repelyth agayne all suche graces and grauntes as he hath made to you before this tyme. 1598Drayton Heroic. Ep. ix. 43 When first thou didst repeale thy former Grant.
†c. To withdraw from use. Obs. rare—1.
1573in Ricart's Kalendar (Camden) 58 This Maior caused a good reformacion to be made for mesures of barrells and kilderkins which weare made larger..then they weare before, And the old vessels repelled.
†2. To recall or retract (a statement); to give up, abandon (a thought, feeling, etc.). Obs.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. civ. (1869) 114 Neuere wolde j repele thing that j hadde euele seid. c1460Ros La Belle Dame 649 Yet may ye wel repeale your bysynesse, And to resoun some-what haue atendaunce. 1596Spenser F.Q. v. viii. 21 Which my liege Lady seeing, thought it best..all forepast displeasures to repeale. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. ii. ii. xxiii, Therefore repeal This grosse conceit, and hold as reason doth reveal. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 59 Adam soon repeal'd The doubts that in his heart arose.
†3.
a. To recall to a proper state or course; to call upon (one) to do something. Obs. rare.
1479in Eng. Gilds (1870) 417 Where I may know the kynges rights of his Crowne..conceled or withdrawe, I shall do my trew peyn to repele and reforme it. 1585Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 380 Diuerss pairteis intendis..to causs thame be repellit to repay the saides mailes and deweteis.
†b. To recall (a person) from exile. Obs.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 293/2 This hooly man..was exyled and after repeled ageyne. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV Introd. a iij b, That Henry duke of Herfford..shal..departe out of the realme for terme of ten yeres, without returnyng excepte by the kyng he be repealed again. 1590Marlowe Edw. II, i. iv, Till my Gaveston be repeal'd, Assure thyself thou com'st not in my sight. 1606G. W[oodcocke] Hist. Ivstine xvi. 67 They determined to fly for refuge to Clearche who was lately banished his countrey, and [whom they] were constrained to repeale in defence of the same. 1662Cokaine Trag. Ovid iv. iii, [She won] so much upon her Father, That I had been repeal'd if he had liv'd.
refl.1593Shakes. Rich. II, ii. ii. 49 The banish'd Bullingbrooke repeales himselfe, And..is..arriu'd At Rauenspurg.
fig.1601Shakes. All's Well ii. iii. 55 This healthfull hand whose banisht sence Thou hast repeal'd. a1625Fletcher & Mass. Cust. Country ii. i, Upon my life this gallant Is brib'd to repeale banished swords.
†c. To call or summon back. Obs.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. Eden 253 Nepenthe, enemy to sadnesse, Repelling sorrows, and repealing gladnesse. 1598J. Manwood Lawes Forest xx. 162 Before that they doe enter the forest, he must repeale and call backe againe his Dogges. a1648Ld. Herbert Autobiog. in Life (1886) 225 The effect whereof should be chiefly to complain against me, and to obtain that I should be repealed. 1727Philip Quarll 251 His scar'd Senses returning to their proper Seat, and his stray'd Reason repeal'd.
†d. To try to get (one) restored. Obs. rare—1.
1604Shakes. Oth. ii. iii. 363 Ile poure this pestilence into his eare: That she repeales him, for her bodies Lust.
†4. intr. To return. Obs. rare—1.
1596C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 101 As one,..Ravisht in Spirite with devoted zeale, Becomes a Priest and will not home repeale.
Hence reˈpealed ppl. a., reˈpealing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1444Rolls of Parlt. V. 117/1 All the matiers conteined in this Petition, save onely repellyng of the Statute. 1533More Debell. Salem Wks. 1014/1 Where neither the making nor the repelling [of the law] lyeth in neither nother of theyr handes. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. iii. i. 51 For the repealing of my banish'd Brother. a1647Filmer Patriarcha iii. §7 (1884) 52 The repealing or abrogating of any statute. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. v. §148 Any bare votes not grounded upon law or reason, or quotations of repealed statutes. 1735Bolingbroke On Parties (1738) 78 His dispensing, or suspending, which was in Effect a repealing Power. 1863Sat. Rev. 11 July 39 The same ignorance or indolence which tempts legislators to introduce sweeping repealing clauses.
▪ III. † reˈpeal, v.2
obs. variant of repel v.
1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 58 Soom bands of Troians..Ranck close too geather, thee Greeks most manlye repealing. Ibid. iii. 89 Night shades moysturs glittring Aurora repealeth. |