1.To call or bring back; to recall. (Obs.) "The faint sprite he did revoke again, To her frail mansion of morality."
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.
3.To hold back; to repress; to restrain. (Obs.) "(She) still strove their sudden rages to revoke."
4.To draw back; to withdraw. (Obs.)
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."
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