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REVO'KE, v.t. [L. revoco; re and voco, to call.]

1. To recall; to repeal; to reverse. A law, decree or sentence is revoked by the same authority which enacted or passed it. A charter or grant which vests rights in a corporation, cannot be legally revoked without the consent of the corporation. A devise may be revoked by the devisor, a use by the grantor, and a will be the testator.

2. To check; to repress; as, to revoke rage. [Not in use.]

3. To draw back.

Seas are troubled when they do revoke their flowing waves into themselves again. [Unusual.]

REVO'KE, v.i. To renounce at cards.

REVO'KE, n. The act of renouncing at cards.

1913 Definition
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.

  6. 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. The act of revoking.

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

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