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Not repealable; not capable of being repealed or revoked, as a law. -- Ir`re*peal"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ir`re*peal"a*bly, adv.

Having ears which lop or hang down.

A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.

To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of. Gov. Winthrop.

To err in speaking.

The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.

Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear.

To exceed in speaking.

To exceed in speaking; to speak too much; to use too many words.

Of or pertaining to a polyp, or polyps.

A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each. Andr…

To appear again.

A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.

To recall; to summon again, as persons. [Obs.] The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, And with uplifted arms is safe arrived. Shak.

The quality or state of being repealable.

Capable of being repealed. -- Re*peal"a*ble*ness, n.

One who repeals; one who seeks a repeal; specifically, an advocate for the repeal of the Articles of Union between Great Britain and Ireland.

Recall, as from banishment. [Obs.]

To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem. "I will repeat our former communication." Robynson (More's Utopia). Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish. Milton.…

More than once; again and again; indefinitely.