Both Uses of
revoke
in
Don Quixote
- The bachelor was filled with amazement when he heard Sancho's phraseology and style of talk, for though he had read the first part of his master's history he never thought that he could be so droll as he was there described; but now, hearing him talk of a "will and codicil that could not be provoked," instead of "will and codicil that could not be revoked," he believed all he had read of him, and set him down as one of the greatest simpletons of modern times; and he said to himself that two such lunatics as master and man the world had never seen.†
Chpt 2.7-8revoked = cancelled
- It is recorded, then, that as soon as Sancho had gone, Don Quixote felt his loneliness, and had it been possible for him to revoke the mandate and take away the government from him he would have done so.†
Chpt 2.43-44 *revoke = void, cancel, or take back
Definition:
to void, cancel, or take back -- especially to do so in an official manner