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▪ I. † ˈrevocate, pa. pple. Obs.
[ad. pa. pple. of L. revocāre to revoke.]
1. Recalled; brought back.
a1400Add. Prologues in Wycliffite Bible IV. 685b, Aftir that Joon was reuocate fro the exile of Pathmos. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 113 After whiche yeres he was reuocate to hym selfe, neuerthelesse he reignede not.
2. Repressed; rescinded.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. iii. 256 About his thegh let no thyng growyng be, But if hit axe to be reuocate. 1533Bellenden Livy iii. vii. (S.T.S.) I. 273 Ilk thing þat was afore done..mycht þan be abrogate and revocate be public commites.
▪ II. † ˈrevocate, v. Obs.
[ad. ppl. stem of L. revocāre to revoke.]
1. trans. To recall, call back.
1540Coverdale Wks. (Parker Soc.) II. 490 If it like your favour to revocate to your memory the godly communication. a1548Hall Chron. Hen. VI, 158 b, To appeace the furious rage.., and..to reuocate him into his olde estate.
2. To do away with, repress. rare—1.
1547Boorde Brev. Health xlii. 21 b, To revocate this inordinate appetide I wolde that a cockrel or a pullet myght be sodyn or rosted.
3. To revoke, rescind.
1564Richmond Wills (Surtees) 116, I do revocate and make frustrat all other wills and testaments. 1595Daniel Civ. Wars iii. lxxxix, His successor..nullifies Many his patents, and did revocate And re-assume his liberalites.
Hence † ˈrevocating vbl. n. Obs.
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 1222/2 Vnles the kyng would recompense and requite the same by reuocatyng of such statutes as were made..in the hygh Courte of Parlament. |