Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Revoke

Revoke , transitive verb

[French révoquer, Latin revocare; pref. re- re- + vocare to call, from vox, vocis, voice. See Voice, and compare Revocate.]

1.
To call or bring back; to recall. [Obsolete]
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. — Shakespeare
3.
To hold back; to repress; to restrain. [Obsolete]
[She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke. — Spenser
4.
To draw back; to withdraw. [Obsolete] — Spenser
5.
To call back to mind; to recollect. [Obsolete]
A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoris to his conscience. — South

Revoke , intransitive verb

(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

Revoke , noun

(Card Playing) The act of revoking.
She [Sarah Battle] never made a revoke. — Lamb