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repealable, a.|rɪˈpiːləb(ə)l|
[f. repeal v.1 + -able.]
That may be repealed or revoked.
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 762/2 All their liberties, which were not repealed, or repealeable by the common law. 1614Budden tr. Aerodius' Disc. Parents Hon. (1616) 11 What he commands is constant and perpetuall, but our lawes bee mutable and repealeable. 1675Art Contentm. vi. ii, Even that decision also would have bin repealable by a greater force. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. iii. viii, An..act of Heaven's Parliament, not repealable in St. Stephen's or elsewhere! 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. i. xxxi. I. 479 These rules are sometimes passed by Congress and repealable by Congress.
Hence repealaˈbility (Webster 1828–32); reˈpealableness (Webster 1847). |