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revoking |
1 definition found 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}.
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