revoke
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French révoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + voco, vocare. Doublet of revocate.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊk
Verb
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- (transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
- Your driver's license will be revoked.
- I hereby revoke all former wills.
- 1539, Myles Coverdale et al., (translators), Great Bible, London: Thomas Berthelet, 1540, deuterocanonical addition to the Book of Esther, heading to Chapter 16,[1]
- The Copye of the letters of Arthaxerses, wherby he reuoketh those which he fyrst sende forth.
- c. 1605 William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 1,[2]
- […] If, on the tenth day following,
- Thy banish’d trunk be found in our dominions,
- The moment is thy death. Away! By Jupiter,
- This shall not be revok’d.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 3, lines 124-128,[3]
- I formd them free, and free they must remain,
- Till they enthrall themselves: I else must change
- Thir nature, and revoke the high Decree
- Unchangeable, Eternal, which ordain’d
- Thir freedom,
- (intransitive) To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit.
- 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 22,[4]
- They had just sat down at the bridge table, and Mrs Lackersteen had just revoked out of pure nervousness, when there was a heavy thump on the roof.
- 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 22,[4]
- (obsolete) To call or bring back.
- Synonym: recall
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 6, Canto 3, p. 392,[5]
- So well he did his busie paines apply,
- That the faint sprite he did reuoke againe,
- To her fraile mansion of mortality.
- (obsolete) To hold back.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 2, p. 213,[6]
- Yet she with pitthy words and counsell sad,
- Still stroue their stubborne rages to reuoke,
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 2, p. 213,[6]
- (obsolete) To move (something) back or away.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 3, Canto 11, p. 566,[7]
- A flaming fire, ymixt with smouldry smoke,
- And stinking Sulphure, that with griesly hate
- And dreadfull horror did all entraunce choke,
- Enforced them their forward footing to reuoke.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 3, Canto 11, p. 566,[7]
- (obsolete) To call back to mind.
- late 1600s-early 1700s, Robert South, Sermon on Proverbs 18.14 in Sermons Preached on Several Occasions, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1823, p. 132,[8]
- A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoirs to his conscience.
- late 1600s-early 1700s, Robert South, Sermon on Proverbs 18.14 in Sermons Preached on Several Occasions, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1823, p. 132,[8]
Related terms
Translations
to cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing
cardgames: to fail to follow suit when one should
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Noun
revoke (plural revokes)
- The act of revoking in a game of cards.
- 1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book (page 102)
- Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!
- 1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book (page 102)
- A renege; a violation of important rules regarding the play of tricks in trick-taking card games serious enough to render the round invalid.
- A violation ranked in seriousness somewhat below overt cheating, with the status of a more minor offense only because, when it happens, it is usually accidental.
Translations
the act of revoking in a game of cards
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