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Revoke

Revoke (revoke)
v. t.(?)
Re*voke"
[imp. *** p. p. Revoked (?)]p. pr. *** vb. n. Revoking.] [F. ré]voquer, L. revocare; pref. re- re- + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice. See <
  1. To call or bring back; to recall.
    [Obs.]

    The faint sprite he did revoke again,
    To her frail mansion of morality.
    Spenser.

  2. Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like.
    Shak.
  3. To hold back; to repress; to restrain.
    [Obs.]

    [She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke. Spenser.

  4. To draw back; to withdraw.
    [Obs.] Spenser.
  5. To call back to mind; to recollect.
    [Obs.]

    A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoris to his conscience. South.

    Syn. -- To abolish; recall; repeal; rescind; countermand; annul; abrogate; cancel; reverse. See Abolish.


Revoke

Revoke (revoke)
v. i.(?)
Re*voke"
(Card Playing)
  1. To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.
    Hoyle.

Revoke

Revoke (revoke)
n.
Re*voke"
  1. The act of revoking.

    She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke. Lamb.














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