Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-PEAL, v.t. [Fr. rappeler, to recall; re and appeler, L. appello; ad and pello.]

1. To recall. [Obsolete as it respects persons.] – Shak.
2. To recall, as a deed, will, law or statute; to revoke; to abrogate by an authoritative act, or by the same power that made or enacted; as, the legislature may repeal at one session, a law enacted at a preceding one.