Revoke /(?)/
Re·voke
Revoke
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Revoked; p. pr. & vb. n. Revoking
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To call or bring back; to recall. [Obs.]
The faint sprite he did revoke again, To her frail mansion of morality.
- 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.
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To hold back; to repress; to restrain. [Obs.]
[She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke.
- To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.]
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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.
Revoke
v. i.
- To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege. (Card Playing)
Revoke
n.
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The act of revoking. (Card Playing)
She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke.