\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}.

\Re*voke"\, v. i. (Card Playing)
To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led,
in violation of the rule of the game; to renege. --Hoyle.

\Re*voke"\, n. (Card Playing)
The act of revoking.
      She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke.  --Lamb.