REVOKE

v. n.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To call or bring back; to recall. [Obs.] The faint sprite he did revoke again, To her frail mansion of morality. Spenser.

2.
v.

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.
v.

To hold back; to repress; to restrain. [Obs.] [She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke. Spenser.

4.
v.

To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.] Spenser.

5.
v.

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.

6.
v.

To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege. Hoyle.

7.
n.

The act of revoking. She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke. Lamb.


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