01 v. t. To call or bring back; to recall.
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.” — Spenser.
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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.” — Spenser.
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To draw back; to withdraw.[Obs.]
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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.