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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

The act of revoking. She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke. Lamb.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.

Synonyms: abolish; recall; repeal; rescind; countermand; annul; abrogate; cancel; reverse. See Abolish.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege. Hoyle.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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