repealn.
/rᵻˈpiːl/, U.S. /rəˈpil/, /riˈpil/ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > exile or state of > [noun] > recall from exile
repealing1431
repeal1483
repealment1597
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f.cxviiv/1 Yf they shold assente to your repeell they shold but a whyle dwelle wyth you.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 262/1 Repell, callyng agayne, repel.
a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. C2 I am inioynde, To sue vnto you all for his repeale.
1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. xvi. 67 At his repeale and calling home into his Countrey, which he shortly expected.
1612 North's Plutarch, Dionysius 1143 The decree of repeale was authorized by the people, and the banished men returned to Syracvsa.
1658 A. Cokayne Trappolin iii. i, in Small Poems 465 To petition for the repeal Of my dear Trappolin.
1707 N. Tate Injur'd Love i. 15 I have letters from him which are suppliant To work his quick Repeal from Banishment.
2.
a. The action or an act of repealing a law, sentence, etc.; annulment, abrogation.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > rule of law > illegality > [noun] > legal invalidity or faultiness > annulment or abrogation
reversing?a1425
repealing1431
abatementc1436
cancellingc1440
annullation1449
defeasance1456
voidance1488
reversal1489
reduction1496
repeal1503
extinguishment1528
disannulling1533
abrogation1535
obrogation1535
unplacing1554
nullity1555
reversement1572
reclaim1604
disaffirmancea1626
avoidance1628
rescinding1638
cassating1647
vacating1648
voiding1649
defease1650
annulment1651
unlawing1651
defeat1657
vacuating1684
peremption1726
invalidation1771
rescindment1783
supersession1790
disaffirmation1827
disenactment1859
discharge1892
1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 28 §1 The seid reversall repelle adnullacion & advoydaunce of this seid Acte.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 65 Again there are rehearsed diuerse repelles of his decrees.
1641 in E. Nicholas Papers (1886) I. 5 The said act of Repeale shalbee sent over to bee passed there.
1696 R. Bentley Of Revel. & Messias 33 These civil ordinances..become obsolete without any repeal.
1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes i. 21 Every part [of that law] had not its particular repeal.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxv. 40 Nothing less than a repeal, as formal as the resolution itself, can heal the wound.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xiv. 398 The repeal of the test would not have placed the two religions on a fair level.
1861 R. C. Trench Comm. Epist. 7 Churches Asia 11 There was for them no repeal of the sentence of death, but a respite only.
1939 C. Headlam Diary 23 Sept. in S. Ball Parl. & Politics in Age Churchill & Attlee (1999) iv. 169 Roosevelt has sent a message to Congress asking for the repeal of the Neutrality Law.
1973 Listener 15 Nov. 660/2 The Labour Party is committed to the repeal of the Industrial Relations Act.
2004 Earth Island Jrnl. Autumn 6/1 Namibia intends to ask for a repeal of the global ban on ivory trade.
b. spec.
(a) Usually with capital initial. The cancellation of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland, as an Irish political demand, esp. in the movement headed by Daniel O'Connell in the 1830s and 1840s. Now historical.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > principles or policies
whiteboyism1777
Defenderism1795
United Irishism1800
republicanism1807
Orangeism1811
Rockism1824
repeal1830
unionism1831
whitefootism1832
West Britonism1841
Young Irelandism1846
Home Rule1858
Fenianism1866
Land-leaguism1881
nationalism1885
Sinn Feinism1907
partition1919
Ulsterization1977
1830 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 30 Sept. 2/3 We yesterday argued the objection against agitating the repeal of the Union.
1848 W. J. O'N. Daunt Recoll. O'Connell I. i. 3 The champion of Repeal excited my enthusiasm.
1888 J. F. Bright Hist. Eng. IV. 107 The agitation for Repeal appeared to have died out.
1917 S. Leslie Celt & World vii. 182 To Repeal as to every cause commended to them at that time the Irish gave a delirious support.
1992 I. Lustick Unsettled States, Disputed Lands iii. 61 Support for Repeal was forthcoming only in Ireland.
(b) Also with capital initial. The lifting of national legal restrictions on alcohol in the United States, with the ratification of the 21st Amendment on 5 December 1933; the ending of Prohibition. Cf. prohibition n. 4b. Now historical.
ΚΠ
1933 Washington Post 21 Feb. 6/1 If there is an overwhelming demand for repeal, the proposed amendment will be adopted.
1933 Los Angeles Times 5 Dec. ii. 4/1 (heading) The day of repeal.
1934 N.Y. Times 22 Nov. 1 (advt.) In a few days America will have had one full year of repeal.
1946 Fortune Aug. 113/1 Ever since repeal all breweries had felt the pressure of costs in heavy advertising, favors to the trade, price wars.
1989 E. L. Doctorow Billy Bathgate i. ii. 25 Mr. Schultz maintained this business in all its prohibitional trappings even though Repeal had come.
2002 W. Kennedy Roscoe 149 He..has sought retreat in Quinlan's..where Roscoe has been palming beer glasses since Mike Quinlan opened the place two days before repeal.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > opportunity of escape
repeal1594
chance1888
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. Lv The onely repeale we haue from Gods vndefinite chastisement, is to chastise our selues in this world.
1819 Ld. Byron Proph. Dante i. 6 That deep gulf without repeal, Where late my ears rung with the damned cries Of souls in hopeless bale.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [noun]
revoking1395
revocationc1400
cassationc1425
annulling1449
reclamationa1475
annulmenta1492
retractation1531
disannulling1533
abrogation1535
cancellation1535
retraction1536
extinguishment1537
undoing1540
abrenunciation1557
revocating1570
reversement1572
revokement1573
annihilation1579
revocatory1579
annullity1586
retroversion1587
rescission1594
recall1597
recision1606
disannulment1611
repeal1612
rasurea1616
cancelment1621
retractinga1624
cancelling1631
extinction1651
circumduction1726
cassing1844
recallment1845
cancel1884
1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 203 The Earle of Desmond aboue al men, found himselfe grieued with this resumption, or Repeale of Liberties.
1657 J. Tombes Anti-pædobaptism: 3rd Pt. lxviiii. 470 The repeal of the priviledge of the Jews mentioned was in mercy to the Jew believer, though chiefly to the Gentiles, and the infants of both, but in justice to the Jewish nation.
Compounds
C1. General attributive (in sense 2b(a)), as repeal meeting, repeal party, etc. Now historical.
ΚΠ
1833 Johnstone's Polit. Reg. 31 Jan. 2/1 The Repeal party is powerful in numbers, and still more so in the weight of the constituency which it represents.
1845 T. B. Macaulay in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (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.
1890 C. G. Duffy Thomas Davis vi. 217 The Repeal members were summoned to attend the weekly meetings at Conciliation Hall.
1921 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 186 Repeal organisations, Fenianism and Home Rule and Land League..[were] eager to forward any movement of violence and unrest.
1966 L. J. McCaffrey Daniel O'Connell & Repeal Year ii. 70 The most important cogs in the Repeal machinery on the local level were the priests.
1991 Hist. Workshop Spring 116 He was unable to prevent temperance bands from playing at Repeal meetings.
C2.
Repeal Warden n. now historical a local official of the Loyal National Repeal Association.The Loyal National Repeal Association was established in 1840 to campaign for the cancellation of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland; see sense 2b(a).
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > societies or associations > members of
hougher1712
white boys1762
Steel boy1772
defender1788
United Irishman1791
Orangeman1796
marksman1800
Thresher1806
marchman1814
Orangist1822
Rockite1824
Brunswicker1828
Terry Alt1831
whitefoot1831
Repeal Warden1841
Young Irelander1844
Fenian1864
Land-leaguer1878
invincible1883
leaguer1892
Provie1972
1841 D. 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.
1903 M. 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.
2000 P. A. Pickering & A. Tyrell People's Bread xi. 249 Following a dispute with Daniel O'Connell in 1846 Finnigan was expelled as an Irish Repeal Warden.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
repealv.1
/rᵻˈpiːl/, U.S. /rəˈpil/, /riˈpil/α. Middle English–1500s repele, Middle English–1500s repell, Middle English–1600s repeale, Middle English–1600s repel, 1500s repeil, 1500s– repeal, 1600s repeall, 1600s repell- (inflected form), 1800s– repale (Irish English); also Scottish pre-1700 repaill, pre-1700 repeill, pre-1700 repel, pre-1700 repell, pre-1700 repelle, 1900s– repael.
β. late Middle English rappell- (inflected form), 1500s rappeall (Scottish); N.E.D. (1906) also records a form late Middle English rapelle.
1. † c. transitive. To withdraw from use. Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To recall or withdraw (a privilege, grant, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)]
fordoOE
allayOE
withdrawc1290
withclepe13..
again-callc1390
to call againc1390
repealc1390
revokec1400
unmakec1400
rive1415
annulc1425
abroge1427
uncommandc1430
discharge?a1439
retreatc1443
retract1501
cancela1513
abrogate?1520
dissolve1526
extinct1531
rescind1531
abrenounce1537
infringe1543
recall1565
unwrite1577
extinguish1590
exauctorate1593
relinquish1594
unact1594
to strike off1597
undecide1601
unpass1606
to take off1609
to draw back1610
reclaim1615
to put back1616
abrenunciate1618
unrip1622
supersedeate1641
to set off1642
unassure1643
unorder1648
to ask away1649
disdetermine1651
unbespeak1661
undecree1667
reassumea1675
off-break1702
circumduct1726
raise1837
resiliate1838
denounce1841
disorder1852
pull1937
the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > take possession of [verb (transitive)] > again or back
repealc1390
repossedea1513
repossessa1513
recall1609
repo1972
c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 148 Þe lyf þat is to ow so leof, He wol ȝou reue... Þis poyntes may no mon him repele [rhyme hele].
1414 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) IV. 59/1 Besechinge also to oure liege Lord, that..this Commission mowe be repeled.
1453–4 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Mar. 1453 §54. m. 10 That eny auctorite or power, to eny othir persone before made..bee..voied, rappelled, revoked, adnulled, and of no force nor effect.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ccxxii. [ccxviii.] 686 Therfore here openly he repelyth agayne all suche graces and grauntes as he hath made to you before this tyme.
1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 27 When first thou didst repeale thy former grant.
a1690 Bp. E. Hopkins Doctr. Two Sacraments (1712) 7 The Children of Christians must likewise be Members of the Christian Church, unless it can be manifested, that Christ hath repealed and recalled this Privilege.
1787 W. Combe Anderson's Hist. Origin Commerce (rev. ed.) I. 387 Richard..repealed their chief privileges, depriving them of the liberty of selling any kind of merchandize excepting provisions.
1859 Pennsylvania State Rep. 33 290 The Commonwealth never has attempted to repeal this grant.
1877 Ann. Reg. 1876 i. 151 This was a University Bill, the main purpose of which was to repeal the license granted in the former year..to all universities to grant degrees.
1917 Outlook 31 Oct. 329/1 Repeal the franking privilege.
2003 Vermont Encycl. 237/3 The state's Social Welfare Act of 1967 repealed town authority to operate poor farms.
b. transitive. To revoke or rescind (something previously determined or set, esp. a law or sentence).
ΘΚΠ
society > law > rule of law > illegality > render illegal [verb (transitive)] > deprive of legal validity
abatea1325
squatcha1325
voida1325
allayc1325
annul1395
reverse1395
revokec1400
rupt?a1425
repealc1425
abroge1427
defeat1429
purloin1461
cassa1464
toll1467
resume1472
reprove1479
suspend1488
discharge1495
reduce1498
cassate1512
defease1512
denulla1513
disannula1513
fordoa1513
avoid1514–5
abrogate?1520
frustrate1528
revert1528
disaffirm?1530
extinct1530
resolve1537
null1538
nihilate1545
extinguish1548
elidec1554
revocate1564
annullate1570
squat1577
skaila1583
irritate1605
retex1606
nullify1607
unable1611
refix1621
vitiate1627
invalid1643
vacate1643
unlaw1644
outlaw1647
invalidate1649
disenact1651
vacuate1654
supersedec1674
destroy1805
break1891
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 3749 (MED) Þe kyng in parlament Hath þer-vppon ȝoue iugement So outterly it may nat be repellid [rhyme asselid].
a1450 Body & Soul (Royal) 496 in Anglia (1876) 2 243 (MED) Now i se i am but lorn; Þere may no man þis doom repele.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. iv. 55 The knight had leuer to forsake his owne contre & to dye so than to repele his lawes.
1529 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. xiv. 257 [To] obserue all the..Rules, and ordynaunces..heretofore made and not Repelled.
1557 Bible (Whittingham) Epistle *iv Ye Olde [Testament]..was in it selfe infirme and vnperfect, and therfore was abolished and repelled.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. iii. 39 Prouided, that my banishment repeald, And lands restored againe be freely granted. View more context for this quotation
1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. ix. 110 The Parson repeales his former sentence.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvi. 138 The Soveraign..having power to make, and repeale Lawes.
1709 J. Swift Let. conc. Sacramental Test 8 I..shall give you my Opinion freely about Repealing the Sacramental Test.
1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 224 Thence date their sad declension and their fall, Their woes not yet repealed.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. v. 287 It was deemed..expedient to repeal the ancient statute.
1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 75 If the duties upon oil..and dye-wares were repealed.
1930 Times 4 Sept. 9/1 The taxes were decreed a first time and so repealed, but redecreed after the dissolution.
2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) ii. 31 A Labour government created Prevention of Terrorism legislation which was supposed to be a ‘strictly temporary measure’, but it was never repealed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > refrain from using [verb (transitive)] > withdraw from use
repeal1573
strike1793
retire1881
decommission1922
1573 in 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.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)] > specific something abstract
forgivec1175
repealc1390
remit1394
disgorgea1523
to lay down1611
degorge1622
ungive1645
to give over1674
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose or intention [verb (transitive)] > recant or retract
to call againc1390
repealc1390
revokec1390
replyc1425
renounce1446
renayc1450
unsay1483
manswear1502
to let loose1530
to call back1533
recant1534
retract1538
unswear1591
unwish1591
swallow1597
to take back1599
retractate1600
reclaim1615
unspeak1615
recede1655
renege1679
unnotify1738
unpronounce1745
withdraw1793
palinode1892
c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 176 (MED) Hose luste with wymmen striue, I rede he..sone him schriue..And in worschip of Marie Such vn-Redines þat ȝe repele.
c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 114 (MED) Neuere wolde j repele thing that j hadde euele seid.
a1500 tr. La Belle Dame sans Mercy (Cambr.) 649 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 104 (MED) Yet may ye wel repeale your bysynesse, And to resoun some-what haue atendaunce.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. viii. sig. S8 Which my liege Lady seeing, thought it best..All forepast displeasures to repeale . View more context for this quotation
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. H3v Therefore repeal This grosse conceit, and hold as reason doth reveal.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 59 Adam soon repeal'd The doubts that in his heart arose. View more context for this quotation
1792 J. Hurdis Sir Thomas More ii. 51 Yet if you, Sir, disapprove, I will endeavour to repeal my fault, By bidding him who loves me, no hard task, To find a wife more worthy.
a. transitive. To recall to a proper state or course. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)]
recovera1382
recurea1382
reparela1382
instore1382
store1387
restorec1390
redressc1405
repeal1479
rectifya1529
restauratea1538
redeem1575
instaurate1583
upright1601
upseta1652
reficiate1657
rehabilitate1663
retrieve1665
re-establish1706
re-rail1914
rehab1961
1479 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith 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.
b. transitive. To recall (a person) from exile. Also figurative. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > exile or state of > exile [verb (transitive)] > recall from exile
repeal1483
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > exile or state of > exile [verb (reflexive)] > recall from exile
repeal1597
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 293/2 This hooly man..was exyled and after repeled ageyne.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV Introd. f. iiiv That Henry duke of Herfford..shall..departe out of the realme for terme of ten yeres, without returnyng excepte by the kyng he be repealed again.
a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. C1v Till my Gaueston be repeald, Assure thy selfe thou comst not in my sight.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. ii. 49 The banisht Bullingbrooke repeales himselfe, And..is..ariude at Rauenspurgh.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 50 This healthfull hand whose banisht sence Thou hast repeal'd . View more context for this quotation
1662 A. Cokayne Trag. Ovid iv. iii. 87 in Poems [She won] so much upon her Father, That I had been repeal'd if he had liv'd.
1678 W. D. tr. F. de La Mothe Le Vayer Notitia Historicorum Selectorum 129 He repealed from Exile the Arch Hæretick Arrius, to gratify his Sister Constantia.
c. transitive. To recall, summon back. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > a condition or state of things
accordlOE
to call againc1390
reduce1419
repeala1500
to call back?1510
recall1580
reinduce1609
gaincall1611
society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > summon > back
again-callc1390
revokec1425
rescrya1450
countermand1464
renvoy1477
reappeal1480
repeala1500
remand1525
recall1567
reclaim1590
return1590
speed1606
to call back1611
hark back1813
withcall1901
a1500 (?a1400) Stanzaic Life of Christ (Harl. 2250) (1926) 9954 (MED) Synne[r]s wele repelled wer to mercy, þof þai diden amys.
1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest xx. f. 162 Before that they doe enter the forest, he must repeale and call backe againe his Dogges.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 279 Nepenthe, enemie to sadnes, Repelling sorrowes, and repealing gladnes.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 110 The effect whereof should be chiefly to complain against me, and to obtain that I should be repeal'd.
1727 P. Longueville Hermit 251 His scar'd Senses returning to their proper Seat, and his stray'd Reason repeal'd.
d. transitive. To call upon (a person) to do something. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > call on to do something
summonc1300
to call up1389
requirec1425
callc1430
repeal1585
demand1632
1585 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) III. 380 Diuerss pairteis intendis..to causs thame be repellit to repay the saides mailes and deweteis.
e. transitive. To try to get (a person) restored. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restoration of a person > [verb (transitive)] > try to get one restored
repeala1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 348 I'le poure this pestilence into his eare, That she repeales him for her bodyes lust. View more context for this quotation
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [verb (intransitive)]
to wend againeOE
i-cherrec1000
again-chareOE
again-comeOE
again-fareOE
again-goOE
eft-sithec1175
to turn againc1175
returna1325
attournec1386
turnc1390
recovera1393
repair?c1400
recourse?a1425
to go backc1425
resortc1425
revertc1475
renew1488
retour?1505
to make return1534
to turn back1538
retend1543
to come short home1548
regress1552
rejourna1556
revolt1567
revolve1587
repeal1596
recur1612
rewend1616
revene1656
to get back1664
to take back1674
1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. G5 As one,..Ravisht in spirite with devoted zeale, Becomes a Priest, and will not home repeale.
Derivatives
reˈpealed adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > rule of law > illegality > [adjective] > legally invalid or faulty > annulled or abrogated
nichillate1560
repealed?1590
?1590 J. Morice Briefe Treat. Oathes 32 The twise damned and repealed statute made vpon the sinister suggestion of the Cleargie.
1593 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. (rev. ed.) ii. viii. 76 For this one kinde of offence, as much is established by this statute, as was for sundry others, by the aforesaid repealed Acte.
1686 F. Philipps Investigatio Jurium Antiquorum xxvii. sig. Mmmmmv The Inquiet People of Athens now come enough under a Mahometan Slavery, would not again wish for Draco's bloody repealed Laws.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. v. 420 Any bare Votes, not grounded upon Law or Reason; or Quotations of repeal'd Statutes.
1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama & Mississippi 53 Occasionally, too, a repealed statute was revived for our especial benefit.
1995 Chicago Daily Law Bull. (Nexis) 23 Oct. 6 Under repealed statutes, a person possessing, or possessing with an intent to deliver, four individual packets of four different narcotics would have faced only one charge.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† repealv.2
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. = repel v.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > repel
recoil?c1225
to turn againc1330
to put awayc1350
rebukec1380
to put abacka1382
to put againa1382
again-puta1400
rebut?a1425
repeal?a1425
retroylc1425
rebatea1475
repel?a1475
repulse?a1475
to put backa1500
refel1548
revert1575
rembar1588
to beat back1593
rebeat1595
reject1603
repress1623
rambarrea1630
stave1631
refringe1692
slap-back1931
?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford Chron. (1996) I. l. 814 Folkes seged wythin on wallys stood,..Wyth their engynes wythin conceled, Out wyth engines fast þai repeled.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 34 Soom bands of Troians..Ranck close too geather, thee Greeks most manlye repealing.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 61 Night shades moysturs glittring Aurora repealeth.
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