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/rɪsˈɪnd/ /risˈɪnd/ Listen

verb

Rescind v. t. (past & past part. rescinded; pres. part. rescinding)

To cut off; to abrogate; to annul. "The blessed Jesus... did sacramentally rescind the impure relics of Adam and the contraction of evil customs."

Specifically, to vacate or make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or by superior authority; to repeal; as, to rescind a law, a resolution, or a vote; to rescind a decree or a judgment.

Synonyms: To revoke; repeal; abrogate; annul; recall; reverse; vacate; void.

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"Rescind" Quotes from Famous Books

... assents to acts of parliament are good, though he has not in his natural capacity attained the legal age of twenty one[x]. By a statute indeed, 28 Hen. VIII. c. 17. power was given to future kings to rescind and revoke all acts of parliament that should be made while they were under the age of twenty four: but this was repealed by the statute 1 Edw. VI. c. 11. so far as related to that prince; and both statutes are declared to be determined by 24 Geo. II. c. 24. It hath also been usually ...

— Commentaries on the Laws of England - Book the First • William Blackstone

... abrogate, invalidate, repeal, revoke, rescind, disannul, set aside, destroy. Antonyms: ...

— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... more than in a staff. By the same rule, insistence that an order be carried out undeviatingly, simply because it has been given, does not of itself win respect for the authority uttering it. Its modification, however, should never be in consequence of untempered pressure from below. To change or rescind is justified only when reestimate of all of the available facts indicates that some other order will serve the general purpose ...

— The Armed Forces Officer - Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 • U. S. Department of Defense

... the liberal payments of Chancery whilst he was an advocate, Lord Keeper Guildford destroyed one source of profit to counsel from which Francis North, the barrister, had drawn many a capful of money. Saith Roger, "He began to rescind all motions for speeding and delaying the hearing of causes besides the ordinary rule of court; and this lopped off a limb of the motion practice. I have heard Sir John Churchill, a famous Chancery practitioner, say, that in his walk from Lincoln's Inn down ...

— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson

... The Chair is of opinion the resolution does not rescind or change any standing rule of the House. The question is on the adoption of ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various

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