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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 rescinded; pres.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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rescind" Quotes from Famous Books

... people urged Augustus very strongly to rescind the sentence of exile passed upon his daughter, but he answered that fire would mix with water before she should be brought back. And the populace did throw a good deal of fire into the Tiber. For the ...

— Dio's Rome, Vol. 4 • Cassius Dio

... publicity license tenacity crescent prejudice scenery condescend effervesce proboscis scintillate oscillate rescind transcend ...

— The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language - Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric • Sherwin Cody

... people are entirely in one's power, if one only had time and inclination to notice them. You can do anything with them. Ask them to a ball, and they will give you their votes; invite them to dinner and if necessary they will rescind them; but cultivate them, remember their wives at assemblies and call their daughters, if possible, by their right names; and they will not only change their principles or desert their party for you; but subscribe their fortunes if necessary and lay down ...

— Sybil - or the Two Nations • Benjamin Disraeli

... better put it in this way, Mr. Levy," she said. "I gave you certain instructions to follow out, which I now rescind. I wish nothing ...

— The New Tenant • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... 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, ...

— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson

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