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.
REVOKE
Re*voke", v. i. (Card Playing)
Defn: To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege. Hoyle.
REVOKE
Re*voke", n. (Card Playing)
Defn: The act of revoking.
She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke. Lamb.
REVOKEMENT
Re*voke"ment, n.