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单词 revoke
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revoken.

Brit. /rᵻˈvəʊk/, U.S. /rəˈvoʊk/, /riˈvoʊk/
Forms: late Middle English revowk, 1500s reuoke, 1600s– revoke.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: revoke v.
Etymology: < revoke v. Compare earlier revocation n. and revoking n.
1. The action or an act of revoking something, revocation; repeal; renunciation. Now chiefly in beyond revoke.In quot. 1498: the right to have a decision repealed.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > summons or summoning > summoning back
again-calling1417
revocation?a1439
reclaima1450
revoke1498
reappeal1550
recall1586
remand1601
recallment1650
1498 in G. Neilson & H. Paton Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1918) II. 196 [They] ar..bound..without ony revowk or appell til stand and abyd at the deliverance and decret of reverend faderis.
1578 T. Proctor Gorgious Gallery sig. I.yv With helpless search, wheras it were assinde, Without reuoke, I tread these endles Mayes.
1660 A. Moore Compend. Hist. Turks 1413 The French Embassadour..advertised his Master of his barbarous intreaty by Mustapha, intreating a revoke from his charge.
1782 F. Burney Cecilia IV. vii. ix. 143 I hope, therefore, Miss Larolles will make a revoke of her apprehensions.
1860 Ladies' Compan. 17 79/2 The treacherous malady granted a respite, which, as so often happens, was hailed as a revoke of the sentence.
1881 D. G. Rossetti Ballads & Sonnets 272 How callous seems beyond revoke The clock with its last listless stroke!
1914 A. Quiller-Couch News from Duchy ii. 332 What sensible man should..fret a day upon what is already settled beyond revoke?
1970 Billboard 3 Oct. 39 The $9000 fine..was, if anything, mild, compared with the revoke of license which could have been decided.
2006 Nation (Thailand) (Nexis) 9 Feb. A mandate is by no means beyond revoke, as witnessed many times in world history.
2. Cards. In bridge, whist, and similar games: a failure to follow suit when required to do so, in violation of the rules; a renege.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > actions or tactics > reneguing
renege1654
revoke1709
renounce?1720
revoking1746
1709 Brit. Apollo 27–29 July If one side make a Revoke.
1742 E. Hoyle Games 8 No Revoke to be claimed 'till the Trick is turned.
1810 Splendid Follies III. 8 Spank flew another revoke card from the hand of Samuelina.
1823 C. Lamb Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist in Elia 74 She never made a revoke.
1862 ‘Cavendish’ Princ. Whist (1863) 13 If they mix their tricks, the revoke penalty can be scored against them.
1874 H. H. Gibbs Game of Ombre iv. 36 The other players have to show their hands, so that he may see that there has been no Revoke.
1929 A. E. M. Foster Contract Bridge for All i. 8 No bonus is scored in respect of any tricks taken by reason of a revoke.
1950 Times 5 July 8/6 If he had been allowed to take a trick with the revoke card the declarer would have been four down.
2002 P. Mendelson Bridge for Beginners xix. 163 If a member of your side has played to the next trick, the revoke is established and you must pay the penalty.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

revokev.

Brit. /rᵻˈvəʊk/, U.S. /rəˈvoʊk/, /riˈvoʊk/
Forms: Middle English reuoque, Middle English–1500s revoce, Middle English–1600s reuoke, Middle English– revoke, 1500s reuock, 1500s revocke, 1600s revoake, 1500s–1600s reuoake, 1600s revoak, 1600s reuoak; Scottish pre-1700 rauolk, pre-1700 rawok, pre-1700 reuock, pre-1700 reuoik, pre-1700 reuok, pre-1700 reuoke, pre-1700 reuolk, pre-1700 revock, pre-1700 revocke, pre-1700 revocque, pre-1700 revoik, pre-1700 revok, pre-1700 revoque, pre-1700 rewock, pre-1700 rewoik, pre-1700 rewok, pre-1700 rewolk, pre-1700 1700s– revoke.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French revoker; Latin revocāre.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman revocer, revoker, Anglo-Norman and Middle French revoquer, Middle French revocquer (French révoquer ) to call back, recall (end of the 12th cent. in Old French as revochier ) to declare void, annul (1261), to remove from office (second half of the 14th cent.) and its etymon classical Latin revocāre to summon back, recall, to call back, to reinstate, to restore, to return the hospitality of, invite back, to bring or fetch back, to cancel, annul, to induce to refrain, to dissuade, to check, to restrain, to restore to a previous condition or status, to restore to health, to revive, to resuscitate, to resume, to renew, to repeat, to recall to mind, to trace or refer back, to bring down, to reduce, to refer to some authority < re- re- prefix + vocāre to call (see vocate v.). Compare Old Occitan revocar (14th cent.), Catalan revocar (1272), Spanish revocar (mid 13th cent.), Portuguese revocar (1305), Italian revocare (a1306 as rivocare).
1.
†a. transitive. To recall or bring back (a person) to a (right) belief, way of life, etc. Also without construction. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > reform, amend, or correct [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person
raisec1175
chastya1240
amenda1275
chastisec1330
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revokec1384
redressc1390
reclaima1393
reducec1425
reform1477
reclaim?a1505
emendc1542
claim1546
reduct1548
save1857
decriminalize1963
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Rom. Prol. 303 Thes [sc. Romans] reuokith [a1425 L.V. aȝenclepith] the apostle to the verrey and the gospels bileue.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 2509 (MED) His swerd..Is to reuoke to þe riȝt weye Swiche as wrongly fro trouþe do forveye.
a1500 Twelve Profits of Tribulation (Rawl.) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 399 (MED) Tribulacion..reuokith or bringeth þe to þe knowynge of þi-selfe.
1532 T. More Confut. Barnes in Wks. (1557) 811/1 Reuoking them that erred, setting vp agayne those that were ouerthrowen.
1577 tr. ‘F. de L'Isle’ Legendarie sig. Hiij By this meanes may such be quailed and reuoked to their dueties.
1687 Assurance of Abbey Lands 134 They had Conference, how the Kingdom of England might be revoked to the Unity of the Church.
†b. transitive. To draw (a person) back or away from some belief, practice, interest, etc. (esp. a wrong or wicked one); to induce (a person, one's will) to refrain from (or of) some purpose or action; to dissuade (a person) from doing something. Also reflexive or intransitive. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > motivation > demotivation > demotivate [verb (transitive)] > discourage
remove?a1425
discourage1437
revoke1447
disporta1450
to take offa1616
to work off1627
to put off1631
dishearten1634
disinvitea1641
to put or set (anyone) by1768
eyebrow1876
the mind > will > motivation > demotivation > demotivate [verb (transitive)] > dissuade
revoke1447
dehorta1533
dishort1549
dissuade?c1550
charma1592
wean1607
to steer off1662
remonstrate1819
dispersuade1951
1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 5785 (MED) She hem reuokyd from hyr ydolatrye And prechyd hem cryst.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 464 (MED) When we synd, þou nowder reuokid with nowder gude wurde nor exsample.
a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 129 (MED) The tyrant..made to be fette a wycche, þat he myȝt with his wicchecraftes reuoke George of his purposes.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 177v The woordes of Demaratus meaned to reuoke hym from ire and wrathe, to takyng better wayes.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 36 You did..reuoke your selfe from continuing to the end, not unaduisedly.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 63 From foloing oure ships thee fluds hye reuockt hym.
1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 732 He..commanded them hard things, to reuoke them from their intention.
1661 G. Fox Pope & Magistrates 16 By no lawful means they might be revoked from their purpose.
a1729 E. Taylor Poems (1960) 218 Lord..Whose rapid flames when they my heart revoke From other Beauties, make't for thee more sweet.
c. transitive. To check or repress (vice, a feeling, an intention, etc.); to restrain (a person). Now literary.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restrain [verb (transitive)]
pindeOE
steerc950
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forbidc1000
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withholdc1200
stewa1225
crempa1250
bistintc1300
i-stillc1315
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entemperc1380
rebukec1380
forfenda1382
refraina1382
refrainc1390
restraina1393
restayc1400
retainc1415
to hold abackc1440
overholda1450
reclaim?c1450
revokec1450
bedwynge1480
sniba1500
repressa1525
rein1531
inhibit1535
to keep back1535
cohibit1544
reprimec1550
lithe1552
to rein up1574
check1581
embridle1583
to rein in1593
retrench1594
refrenate1599
to hold back1600
snip1601
becheck1605
sneap1611
trasha1616
supersede1645
reprimand1689
snape1691
to clap a guy on1814
to pull up1861
to pull in1893
withstrain1904
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restrain [verb (transitive)] > specifically from doing something
conclude1382
restrain1384
refraina1398
keepa1400
to coart of1430
revokec1450
stop1488
contain1523
retract1548
stay1560
retire1567
straiten1622
confine1651
obligec1661
c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 267 (MED) Estate of worthynesse In gouernance is ȝouen to þe wise..to reuoken and represse Þe vice þat wolde encresen and aryse.
c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 132 It is vertu in a kyng..qwan þat he is meuyd to do amys, be wysdam to reuoke [a1500 Lamb. Þat he..repele; L. reuocare] hys mocion, for it is gret wysdam in a kyng to gouerne hym-self.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ii. sig. O4 Yet she with pitthy words and counsell sad, Still stroue their stubborne rages to reuoke.
1637 R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose Christian Offices i. 46 Abigael by her..deprecation pacified and revoked David and his army.
1793 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry III. Introd. p. xlvii Your hot-born rage revoke.
1875 A. F. Hill Secrets of Sanctum 165 This largely influenced him to revoke his determination to dismiss the ‘whole force.’
1946 C. N. Robertson Unterrified ix. 111 With a visible effort, Edward King revoked his anger.
1992 R. Waterfield tr. Plutarch Essays 189 If they rout the enemy, they do not set off in pursuit, but revoke their passion.
2.
a. transitive. To recant, withdraw (something one has written or said); to retract, take back (a statement, opinion, vow, etc.); to renounce (a belief).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose or intention [verb (transitive)] > recant or retract
to call againc1390
repealc1390
revokec1390
replyc1425
renounce1446
renayc1450
unsay1483
manswear1502
to let loose1530
to call back1533
recant1534
retract1538
unswear1591
unwish1591
swallow1597
to take back1599
retractate1600
reclaim1615
unspeak1615
recede1655
renege1679
unnotify1738
unpronounce1745
withdraw1793
palinode1892
c1390 (?c1350) St. Ambrose 782 in C. Horstmann Sammlung Altengl. Legenden (1878) 20 (MED) Justine..Bigon to distorble þe stat Of holichurche..And prestes manased to exile, But ȝif þei wolde reuoke þe counsyle..Þat men cleped Arimninence [read Arimminence].
1446 Recantation John Bredon of Coventry f. 91 (MED) As ferre as I have suche matiers or opynions affermed, preched, or taught, I..revoke and renounce theyme.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cccxlv/2 Whanne he fete this, He reuoked hit in his retractions.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes ii, in Wks. 184/1 Therefore he bounde his preachers to stande thereby and not to reuoke his word for no pain.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. vij The Cardinall..at the fyrste metynge commaunded him, to reuoke his workes.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. ⁋13 The same S. Augustine was not ashamed to retractate, we might say reuoke, many things that had passed him.
1656 A. Cowley To Dr. Scarborough in Pindaric Odes v The first fam'd Aphorism thy great Master spoke, Did he live now he would revoke.
1769 Crit. Rev. May 371 It is necessary, said he, that we part: my vow is irrevocable. O! no, no, no, I can never revoke it!
1790 M. O. Warren Ladies of Castile iii. ii, in Poems 137 By St. Peter's key, I've sworn, nor will revoke my plighted faith.
1830 E. Roberts Oriental Scenes 188 That strong oath I swore to thee must be revoked.
1856 Criterion Mar. 325/3 Schahriar, having his rage mollified, revoked his vow and pardoned his wife.
1955 R. Manheim tr. H. Leisegang in J. Campbell Mysteries 253 Odobesco..revoked his opinion of 1868. For in the third volume..he put forward an entirely different interpretation.
2004 T. E. Barlow Question of Women in Chinese Feminism vii. 331 She never revoked her belief.
†b. intransitive. To make a retraction; to recant. Also with from. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose [verb (intransitive)] > recant or retract
revoke1395
renayc1450
reclaima1475
faggot1538
recant1542
recry1568
to eat one's words1571
recall1585
unsay1585
retract1644
palinode1847
Remonstr. against Romish Corruptions (Titus) (1851) 132 (MED) Bishops..condempnen..any cristen man..for as much as he seyd..errour..whan they fynden not that he reuoked in any place.
c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 143 (MED) Þat good Lord diffinyd neuir thyng so streytly þat be þat He dyd derogacion to Hys power þat He may reuoke aftir He seeth cause qwy to reuoke.
a1525 Talis Fyve Bestes l. 364, in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 138 It Is more worschipe till his hie estait For to revoke þan to be obstinat.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 411 It is..an other thing to revoke in season, assoone as a man doth know his error.
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 81 To compasse sinister ends, and then revoke when they see their time.
1696 tr. G. Croese Gen. Hist. Quakers ii. ii. 7 The six were not at all affraid, persisting in their opinion..which they thought it their duty not to revoke from.
a1743 R. Savage Wks. (1775) II. 118 His patron can't revoke, but may repent.
1819 G. Crabbe Tales of Hall II. xii. 20 I make a promise, and will not revoke.
†c. transitive. To yield, give up (one's life). Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)]
forsakec893
forlet971
to reach upOE
agiveOE
yield?c1225
uptake1297
up-yield1297
yield1297
deliverc1300
to-yielda1375
overgivec1384
grant1390
forbeara1400
livera1400
forgoc1400
upgive1415
permit1429
quit1429
renderc1436
relinquish1479
abandonc1485
to hold up?1499
enlibertyc1500
surrender1509
cess1523
relent1528
to cast up?1529
resignate1531
uprender1551
demit1563
disclaim1567
to fling up1587
to give up1589
quittance1592
vail1593
enfeoff1598
revoke1599
to give off1613
disownc1620
succumb1632
abdicate1633
delinquish1645
discount1648
to pass away1650
to turn off1667
choke1747
to jack up1870
chuck up (the sponge)1878
chuckc1879
unget1893
sling1902
to jack in1948
punt1966
to-leave-
1599 Hist. Syr Clyomon & Clamydes sig. F2 Take with thee that mortall blow or stroke The which shall cause thy wretched corps this life for to revoke.
3.
a. transitive. To annul, repeal, rescind (a decree, will, privilege, etc.); to cancel (an order, appointment, office, etc.). Also intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > make revocation [verb (intransitive)]
revokec1400
to call off1620
unvote1647
to fall off1710
obnounce1741
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)]
fordoOE
allayOE
withdrawc1290
withclepe13..
again-callc1390
to call againc1390
repealc1390
revokec1400
unmakec1400
rive1415
annulc1425
abroge1427
uncommandc1430
discharge?a1439
retreatc1443
retract1501
cancela1513
abrogate?1520
dissolve1526
extinct1531
rescind1531
abrenounce1537
infringe1543
recall1565
unwrite1577
extinguish1590
exauctorate1593
relinquish1594
unact1594
to strike off1597
undecide1601
unpass1606
to take off1609
to draw back1610
reclaim1615
to put back1616
abrenunciate1618
unrip1622
supersedeate1641
to set off1642
unassure1643
unorder1648
to ask away1649
disdetermine1651
unbespeak1661
undecree1667
reassumea1675
off-break1702
circumduct1726
raise1837
resiliate1838
denounce1841
disorder1852
pull1937
society > law > rule of law > illegality > render illegal [verb (transitive)] > deprive of legal validity
abatea1325
squatcha1325
voida1325
allayc1325
annul1395
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revokec1400
rupt?a1425
repealc1425
abroge1427
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toll1467
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discharge1495
reduce1498
cassate1512
defease1512
denulla1513
disannula1513
fordoa1513
avoid1514–5
abrogate?1520
frustrate1528
revert1528
disaffirm?1530
extinct1530
resolve1537
null1538
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extinguish1548
elidec1554
revocate1564
annullate1570
squat1577
skaila1583
irritate1605
retex1606
nullify1607
unable1611
refix1621
vitiate1627
invalid1643
vacate1643
unlaw1644
outlaw1647
invalidate1649
disenact1651
vacuate1654
supersedec1674
destroy1805
break1891
c1400 Brut (Rawl. B. 171) 206 (MED) Þe exiling of þe forsaide Piers shulde bene reuokede.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 175 The gouernaunce of Laban..was not reuokid, as was the gouernaunce and lawe of the Iewis.
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iv. xii. 264 The prynces and lordes shuld not suffre to reuoque nor calle ayen theire sentences.
1528 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 269 All testamentis and willes bifore maide..I revoce and utterly forsakes.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 862/2 The king..iudicially reuoked and quite disanulled the processe of the sayde award.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 143 Antipater the Idumoean procureth him to revoke his resignation.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 126 I else must change Thir nature, and revoke the high Decree Unchangeable, Eternal. View more context for this quotation
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. xx. 123 I doubted not but the letter was to revoke or suspend your resolution.
1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings 230 Knowing that the said Sullivan's appointment had been condemned and revoked by the Court of Directors.
1808 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius II. xxi. 778 On the ground of an intention to revoke..in favour of a wife and children unprovided for.
1868 J. D. McCabe Life & Public Services H. Seymour 338 This order was revoked by Gen. Scott as soon as he learned the true state of the case.
1915 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. & Amer. Law Reg. 63 224 A license..may be revoked by express words to that effect.
1944 M. O. Hudson Internat. Tribunals 130 The Norwegian Government proceeded two days later to revoke the decree.
a1969 J. K. Toole Confederacy of Dunces (1980) ix. 182 He remembered that his library card had been revoked.
2000 D. J. Guy White Slavery & Mothers Alive & Dead 133 Other municipal officials reinspected the house, found it clean, and revoked the eviction.
†b. transitive. To break up, dissolve (an assembly). Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > a company or assembly
dissever1393
parta1400
skaila1400
to break up1483
disassemble1550
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disband1591
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revoke1675
break1685
bust1855
1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses 14 By Jove I you adjure and Themis, who Convokes assemblies, and revokes again.
4.
†a. transitive. To bring back to (also into, unto) life; to restore to consciousness. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > resurrection or revival > [verb (transitive)]
quickOE
arearc1000
raisec1175
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again-raisec1384
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resurrection1661
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re-embody1791
revivicate1798
re-energize1803
resurrectionize1804
revitalize1869
reimpress1883
a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l. 1118 Hym to reuoken she dide al hire peyne, And at þe laste, he gan his breth to drawe.
1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. b vi Doynge all that ever he canne, To revoke masse vnto lyfe agayne.
a1555 J. Philpot tr. C. S. Curione Def. Authority Christ's Church in R. Eden Exam. & Writings J. Philpot (1842) (modernized text) 420 He would not have said they faded away, but might boldly affirm that they be revoked into life again.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ii. xxi. 221 Messias Ben Dauid with Elias shall reuoke into life that Messias Ben Ioseph.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxv. 178 Flyes..by vertue of the sun or warme ashes will be revoked unto life. View more context for this quotation
1851 J. Torrey tr. A. Neander Gen. Hist. Christian Relig. & Church VII. ii. vi. 338 There sprung up..an enterprise by which the strictness of the older models was to be again revoked to life.
†b. transitive. To bring back into use; to revive. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restore [verb (transitive)] > something obsolete or in abeyance
raisec1175
renewa1382
restorec1384
revive1516
revoke1574
resurrect1823
1574 A. Golding tr. A. Marlorat Catholike Expos. Reuelation 47 Wicked Jezabel, which reuoked, stablished, and increaced the abhominable seruing of Baal.
1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 131 We are not to tread in their steps so far, as to revoke the whole Art of their obsolete Rhetorique.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. F7 Say our first loves we sho'd revoke, And sever'd, joyne in brazen yoke.
c. transitive. To call (a person or thing) back to memory, to recall; to re-evoke, formerly also with to, into (mind, consciousness, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > call to mind, recollect [verb (transitive)]
i-thenchec897
bethinkOE
mingOE
thinkOE
monelOE
umbethinkc1175
to draw (also take) into (or to) memorya1275
minc1330
record1340
revert1340
remembera1382
mindc1384
monishc1384
to bring to mindc1390
remenec1390
me meanetha1400
reducec1425
to call to mind1427
gaincall1434
pense1493
remord?1507
revocate1527
revive1531
cite1549
to call back1572
recall1579
to call to mind (also memory, remembrance)1583
to call to remembrance1583
revoke1586
reverse1590
submonish1591
recover1602
recordate1603
to call up1606
to fetch up1608
reconjure1611
collect1612
remind1615
recollect1631
rememorize1632
retrieve1644
think1671
reconnoitre1729
member1823
reminisce1829
rememorate1835
recomember1852
evoke1856
updraw1879
withcall1901
access1978
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. F1 The man I know is not cleane out of your conceite, and therefore I will cease in farther speeches at this present to reuoke him.
1600 J. Sparke in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 513 Reuoking to minde the former talke betweene the Captaine and him.
a1618 J. Sylvester Mottoes in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1188 When Them I to my Minde revoke, Mee thinks I see a mighty Smoke.
a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) IX. i. 31 A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoirs to his conscience.
a1802 T. Dermody Harp of Erin (1807) I. 152 There thou, who bear'st the bitter weight of woe, Mayst all thy scenes of happier youth revoke.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. xxx. 121 If the faculty by which they [sc. cognitions] are revoked into consciousness be inert [etc.].
1936 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 83 541 Revoking the past means not only the revoking of one event but means the restoration of the sequence of events.
1956 Spectator 20 July 104/1 Mr. Scott-Moncrieff has, with something considerably more than charm and a sense of nostalgia, revoked the past of a part of Edinburgh for us.
2008 A. Brady Marketing Dictatorship viii. 187 Numerous books..revoked the memories of China's years under foreign exploitation.
5.
†a. transitive. To call back or restore (time, the past, etc.); (also more generally) to summon or bring back (a thing or animal). Chiefly figurative. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > summon > back > specifically an animal or thing
revoke?c1422
?c1422 T. Hoccleve Ars Sciendi Mori l. 252 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 187 The tyme is past, the tyme is goon for ay; No man reuoke or calle ageyn it may.
?a1500 tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (Harl.) (1942) 81 (MED) Who reuoketh þat is past, to late calleth he.
1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 8 These Dogges..being acquainted with their masters watchwordes, eyther in reuoking or imboldening them to serue the game.
1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 6 Seas are troubled when they do reuoke Their flowing waues, into themselues againe.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. I2 Ye must revoke The patient Oxe unto the Yoke.
1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 25 How readily we wish time spent revok'd, That we might try the ground again.
1849 Acton 256 We could not revoke the tide of time.
b. transitive. To recall, summon back (a person), esp. from exile or from an office abroad. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > summon > back
again-callc1390
revokec1425
rescrya1450
countermand1464
renvoy1477
reappeal1480
repeala1500
remand1525
recall1567
reclaim1590
return1590
speed1606
to call back1611
hark back1813
withcall1901
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. 1410 (MED) She..weyes cast..Hym to reuoke to his Regioun, And þer-vppon to hym louly sent.
c1475 ( in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1911) 26 522 (MED) Whiles thay may be kepet oute, whate wysedome were it to revoke hem home?
1535 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. II. 361 I..trussed his male, and was cariying it to his horse, and he revoked me and seied [etc.].
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 847/2 Hauing reuoked again into England, his olde mate, ye said Peers de Gaueston, he [sc. Edward II] receiued him into most high fauoure.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 8 Shortly after..Sir John Perrot being reuoked, Sir William Fitz-williams was sent Lord Deputy into Ireland.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Westmorl. 138 Had he not been suddenly revok'd into England, he would have perfected the project.
1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation I. Introd. 21 Now the English forces were revoked from the marches of Scotland.
1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xxxviii. 398 Sir Thomas Chaloner, being dangerously sick, without hope of recovery but by returning, was revoked.
1831 C. Whitehead Solitary iii. 76 Ah ! would I could revoke him from the past, Untimely, sudden, and for ever gone.
1866 W. C. Richards Great in Goodness xxxi. 394 The newspapers thus revoked him to public life.
1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. VI. xxi. 15 When, lo, revoked from field, the cohorts march.
1992 K. Maier et al. Conspicuous Destr. x. 181 On March 13, in retaliation for the expulsions, the United States revoked..its ambassador.
c. transitive. To dismiss a person from (an office, position of authority, etc.).
ΚΠ
1465 J. Russe in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 307 He hath be meovyd to revoke Maistir Roberd Kente and..take the avoket..Maistir Yelwirton hathe.
1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War i. xv. f. xli v The confederates of Grece, departed from the Lacedemonyens, & did allye themselfe with the Athenyans. By occasyon wherof, the Lacedemoniens reuoked him from his charge.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. xxxvi. 117 He was revoked from being Viceroy of Naples (the best Employment the King of Spain hath for a Subject) upon some disgust.
1798 New & Gen. Biogr. Dict. (rev. ed.) XII. 416 The several lord lieutenants, from whom he had received deputations, were commanded to revoke him.
1837 Naval Mag. Nov. 602/1 The responsibility..to nominate and revoke the men employed of every rank chosen for the good of the Society.
1870 New Monthly Belle Assemblée 18 158/2 The Minister revoked him from his functions immediately.
1912 C. H. C. Wright Hist. French Lit. xii. 751 Appointed in 1862 professor of Semitic philology at the College de France he was revoked soon after as an indirect consequence of the scandal.
1975 J. M. Merriman in R. Price Revol. & Reaction 228 This enthusiasm was his political undoing, for he [sc. Junien] was revoked on 29 August 1849.
1996 V. A. Schmidt From State to Market ix. 269 If at any given moment I was in disagreement with my shareholder, I asked to be received by the Minister himself and, on leaving, either we were in agreement or I was revoked.
d. transitive. To refer (a person, appeal, case, etc.) to some authority. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > advise [verb (transitive)] > ask advice of or seek counsel from > refer (a matter, etc.) to a higher authority
submitc1449
refer1469
defer1490
reject1533
to put over1573
revoke1599
consult1618
compromise1651
subcommit1652
relegate1846
1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered ix. 30 Thither you reuoke vs.
1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 181 Againe, he reuoketh us to Church and Councels.
1782 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xiii. 208 Appeals from their supreme court..were arbitrarily revoked to England, to be there heard before the king and council.
1833 J. H. Wiffen Hist. Mem. House of Russell I. viii. 312 Instead of issuing in a judgment, the cause was revoked to Rome.
1991 C. Durston & S. Doran Princes, Pastors & People (BNC) 56 Soon after the court's opening the case was revoked to Rome.
†e. transitive. To reduce (a thing) to, bring into, a particular state or category. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > bring (a person or thing) into a state or condition > reduce to a state or condition
reduce?a1425
reduct1548
perduce1563
revoke1605
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xv. 78 What power or virtue soeuer is in the nature of medicines and of sicknesses,..the same is to bee reuoked to those three beginnings.
1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox x. 246 Which clause was offensive to her Ears, as revoking into doubt her constancy.
1785 E. Perronet Occas. Verses 168 Think you then, that He who all things made..Cannot..The whole reduce, and Nature's self revoke To their primeval state.
1799 T. R. Bentley Considerations upon State of Public Affairs 47 It would revoke into doubt and litigation every act, every treaty, and every principle, by which the conduct of nations has been governed.
a1843 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) V. App. 367 This of Dolly was a fantastic birth, or, rather, manifestation soon to be Revoked into nonentity.
†6. transitive. To draw back, withdraw (a part of the body). Obsolete. rare.Quot. 1855 appears to be an echo of 1590.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > cause to move back [verb (transitive)] > move or draw something backwards
shrinkc1275
withdrawa1325
retreata1460
retract?a1475
revokea1500
retray1562
revolt1571
back1578
return1594
inshella1616
recede1823
a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 104 (MED) Who so euer depresseth one of his browes lightly, and nesshly reuokith it..tho delyten in faire thynges.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. viii. sig. T8 Yet with his troncheon he so rudely stroke Cymochles twise, that twise him forst his foot reuoke.
1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 41 Who..doe also revoke and bow back their whole body.
1855 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Dec. 634/1 With instinctive good feeling, Captain Delano, revoking his foot, turned and reciprocally advanced.
7. transitive. Chiefly with to or unto (oneself). To take back (a thing); to appropriate (a right, privilege, etc.); to assume jurisdiction over (a case, a suit, etc.). Also with into (one's hands).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > take [verb (transitive)] > take again or back > take back
resume1404
to take again1474
revoke1526
reclaim1530
to fetch again1535
to take back1568
reducec1595
reassume1609
revicta1656
reassert1704
pull1985
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Hviv Suche sedes yt we haue layde out of our spirituall barnes for his loue, let vs neuer reuoke or call agayn.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. S.iv Wherby is lost my libertie: Which by no meanes I may reuoke.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccccxxv Wherefore the Byshop..reuoketh the suite to him selfe.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 393/2 Thys Duke then reuoked into his hands certayne percels of his demeane lands which his father hadde giuen away.
1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 94 Beseeching him to reuoke the cause vnto himselfe, and to be the onely iudge thereof.
1685 Bp. G. Burnet Life W. Bedell iv. 370 At last the Pope revoking it [sc. the motion De moderandis titulis] to himself, blamed those that had spoken against these Titles.
1819 J. Lingard Hist. Eng. II. xv. 333 He [sc. Henry III]..revoked to himself the custody of the royal castles.
1870 Last Vials Aug. 139 It is ‘good news’ to tell the whole world that its true King is about to appear, and to revoke to himself all the power and royalty of the earth.
1950 A. R. Kelly Eleanor of Aquitaine & Four Kings xxi. 229 He publicly revoked into his own hands all the provinces he had long ago assigned to his sons.
1992 J. C. Spalding tr. Reformation Eccl. Laws Eng. 255 A bishop can revoke to himself cases which are being tried before his vicar.
8. intransitive. Cards. In bridge, whist, and similar games: to fail to follow suit when required to do so, in violation of the rules. Cf. renege v. 5.In quot. 1791: (figurative) to fail to respond appropriately.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > play at cards [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics > renegue
revoke1592
renounce1656
renege1674
nig1829
1592 ‘C. Cony-Catcher’ Def. Conny-catching sig. A3 As thus I stood looking on them playing at cros-ruffe, one was taken revoking.
1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) 102 You must not revoke, if you do you pay all on the Table.
1681 T. D'Urfey Sir Barnaby Whigg iii. ii. 29 Let the worst happen, I can but turn; the Saints may revoke, if the game be near losing.
1742 E. Hoyle Games 8 A revokes; Query, what is the Penalty.
1791 E. Burke Appeal New to Old Whigs 115 And shall we Englishmen revoke to such a suit?
1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 261 A noisy rubber, in which Esau accused Jacob of having revoked.
1864 in W. E. Burton Cycl. Wit & Humor II. 1060/2 I'll so loudly thump it, He'll soon revoke, without the heart to trumpet.
1901 Times 10 Apr. 10/1 An amount of scorn comparable only to that attending one who..purposely revokes at farthing whist.
1941 Times 27 Dec. 8/3 One of the ‘A’ team players revoked.
2008 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) (Nexis) 2 Nov. (Sunday) 11 If you revoked, the penalty is one trick or two.

Derivatives

reˈvoked adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [adjective] > annulled, cancelled, revoked
derogate1430
revocate?1440
revoked1461
abrogatea1464
annihilate?a1475
cassate1519
cancelled1539
dissolved?1541
abolished1546
dissoluted1606
aniente1636
retracted1676
red-lined1966
society > authority > command > command or bidding > [adjective] > summoning > summoned > back
revoked1461
recalled1592
1461–2 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1461 §41. m. 19 The pretended and revoked parlement last holden at youre toune of Coventre.
1628 A. Leighton Appeal to Parl. (ed. 2) 20 According to that formerly revoked Statute of Henry 4.
1870 J. D. Sherwood Comic Hist. U.S. 98 The Protestant Huguenot element, tossed out of France by the revoked edict of Nantes.
2000 Chicago Tribune 1 Sept. ii. 1/6 To keep people who continue to drive on suspended or revoked licenses off the road.
reˈvokeless adj. chiefly poetic irrevocable.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adjective] > irretrievable
uncoverlyc1225
irrevocable1382
returnless?1615
reverseless1630
unretrievable1684
irretrievable1695
retrieveless1703
revokeless1774
irredeemable1839
1774 Ann. Reg. 1773 Poetry 239 Why call us to revokeless doom?
1876 ‘Stella’ Sappho (ed. 2) i. i. 9 Dost thou believe the soul can leave its temple Ere that Jove send revokeless summons for it?
1942 W. Faulkner Bear in Go Down, Moses 257 All the life it contained was chattel and revokeless thrall to this commissary store.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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