Crossword clues for revoked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revoke \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.]
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To call or bring back; to recall. [Obs.]
The faint sprite he did revoke again, To her frail mansion of morality.
--Spenser. 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.-
To hold back; to repress; to restrain. [Obs.]
[She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke.
--Spenser. To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.]
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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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: revoke)
Usage examples of "revoked".
The provisional game scores announced for you are hereby revoked, and your entry visas are hereby canceled.
Instead of putting republicans, but above all, honest, wise and enlightened men in the place of the functionaries and employees dismissed or revoked, the selections dictated by the new Councils fell for the most part on anarchists and men of blood and robbery.
While they revoked Gagan's Letter of Immunity, they indicted Howe on spurious charges.
His licence had been revoked and he was currently looking for any work he could get.
If Nick's credit-jack had been revoked, he had nothing with which to buy the brat back.
If they revoked him, that was it He wasn't going to take her down with him, as his wife.
Lucas was in danger of being revoked for instigating "unrest" in the prisons, agitating, and basically meddling in what the parole board and prison authorities felt was no longer his business.
Worse, under the California indeterminate sentence laws, once he was revoked, the Adult Authority could keep him for as long as they liked.
But I am right in saying, am I not, that by your English law that will was automatically revoked when Mrs.
Attorney's Office revoked his Letter of Immunity, ignored his information, and apparently tried to assassinate him.
He sat in unaltered calm, and, in fact, the company, preoccupied with more important problems, and with the complication of listening to bequests which might or might not be revoked, had ceased to think of him.
The second will revoked everything except the legacies to the low persons before mentioned (some alterations in these being the occasion of the codicil), and the bequest of all the land lying in Lowick parish with all the stock and household furniture, to Joshua Rigg.