Hypertext Webster Gateway: "revoke"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Revoke \Re*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Revoked};p. pr. & vb. n.
{Revoking}.] [F. r['e]voquer, L. revocare; pref. re- re- +
vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice. See {Voice}, and cf.
{Revocate}.]
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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Revoke \Re*voke"\, n. (Card Playing)
The act of revoking.

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

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

revoke
n : the mistake of not following suit when able to do so [syn: {renege}]
v 1: fail to follow suit in a card game when able and required to
do so
2: annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on
smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
[syn: {annul}, {lift}, {countermand}, {reverse}, {repeal},
{overturn}, {rescind}, {vacate}]


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