Re*voke" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Revoked (?);p. pr. & vb. n. Revoking.] [F. r'evoquer, 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.
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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.
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Re*voke", n. Card Playing
The act of revoking.
She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke.
Lamb.
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