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v. t. [ Cf. Avocate. ] To call from or back again. [ Obs. ] Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Convoked p. pr. & vb. n. Convoking. ] [ L. convocare: cf. F. convoquer. See Convocate. ] To call together; to summon to meet; to assemble by summons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There remained no resource but the dreadful one of convoking a parliament. palfrey.

Syn. -- To summon; assemble; convene. See Call. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. équivoque. See Equivocal. ] 1. An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An equivocation; a guibble. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Evoked p. pr. & vb. n. Evoking. ] [ L. evocare; e out + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice: cf. F évoquer. See Voice, and cf. Evocate. ] 1. To call out; to summon forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

To evoke the queen of the fairies. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A regulating discipline of exercise, that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another. [ R. ] “The cause was evoked to Rome.” Hume.

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Invoked p. pr. & vb. n. Invoking. ] [ F. invoquer, L. invocare; pref. in- in, on + vocare to call, fr. vox voice. See Voice, and cf. Invocate. ] To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; as, to invoke the Supreme Being, or to invoke His and blessing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Go, my dread lord, to your great grandsire's tomb, . . .
Invoke his warlike spirit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To provoke excessively. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Provoked p. pr. & vb. n. Provoking. ] [ F. provoquer, L. provocare to call forth; pro forth + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice, cry, call. See Voice. ] To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Obey his voice, provoke him not. Ex. xxiii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. Eph. vi. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such acts
Of contumacy will provoke the Highest
To make death in us live. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust? Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul. J. Burroughs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To irritate; arouse; stir up; awake; excite; incite; anger. See Irritate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To cause provocation or anger. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To appeal. [ A Latinism ] [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act that which, provokes; one who excites anger or other passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Revoked p. pr. & vb. n. Revoking. ] [ F. révoquer, L. revocare; pref. re- re- + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice. See Voice, and cf. Revocate. ] 1. To call or bring back; to recall. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The faint sprite he did revoke again,
To her frail mansion of morality. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To hold back; to repress; to restrain. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ She ] still strove their sudden rages to revoke. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To draw back; to withdraw. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To call back to mind; to recollect. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoris to his conscience. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To abolish; recall; repeal; rescind; countermand; annul; abrogate; cancel; reverse. See Abolish. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Card Playing) The act of revoking. [ 1913 Webster ]

She [ Sarah Battle ] never made a revoke. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Revocation. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]