I will repeal thee, or, be well assured,
Adventure to be banishèd myself.
Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI., act iii. sc. 2.
Whence Adam soon repealed
The doubts that in his heart arose.
Milton, Paradise Lost, vii. 59.
Or else Nepenthe, enemy to sadness,
Repelling sorrows, and repealing gladness.
Sylvester, Du Bartas, Eden, The Second Week.
Reprove. Now ‘to rebuke,’ but once equivalent to ‘disprove,’ and convertible with it.