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to reinvoke

to reinvoke

8.1
To bring a rule or law back into use
  • verb
  • /ˌriːɪnˈvoʊk/
  • Formal
translation icon : reimponer
  • The teacher had to reinvoke classroom rules after several students were disruptive during the lesson.

Examples

  • During the meeting, the lawyer decided to reinvoke the previous agreement to clarify the rules for both parties.

  • In Brian McHale's useful inventory of characteristic impossibilities, he discusses what he calls sous-rature worlds, worlds under erasure, which are usually withdrawn immediately after their construction only to be reinvoked.

    Academic text (1995)

  • To ensure fairness, the committee agreed to reinvoke the old regulations while they discussed potential updates.

Synonyms

to renew
vsto reinvoke
175 2.8

Make a card or agreement valid again after it ends

is about calling or using something again rather than simply restoring validity or freshness
to resurrect
vsto reinvoke
42 6.8

Bring something back into use after it was forgotten

is used for deliberate calling into effect rather than revival from being forgotten
to reinstitute
vsto reinvoke
6 6.1

To start again a rule or practice that stopped

is about using or calling something again rather than fully reestablishing it
to reimpose
vsto reinvoke
5 6.5

To put a rule or law back in place after it was removed

is more about imposing authority again rather than simply calling something into use
to reenact
vsto reinvoke
  • Formal
2 6.6

Make a law or rule work again after it stopped

is used more generally to call something back into use or memory
to reordain
vsto reinvoke
  • Formal
9.6

To make a rule or law again by an official decision

is the neutral act of putting something back into use without formal decree

Antonyms

to disregard
119 3.9

Ignore something or someone on purpose

Surface Forms

reinvoke infinitive
reinvoaked past
reinvoaked past participle
reinvoaking present participle
reinvoques third person singular

Morphology

reinvoke = invoke (transparent) = re + invoke

This sense is a regular 'again' formation from 'invoke', meaning to call upon or put something into effect again.

Etymology

Reinvoke comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and invoke, from the old Latin vocare meaning 'to call', the same root as voice. So, to reinvoke a law, policy, or memory is to 'call it back' or bring it back into use.