void
VOID, a. L. viduus, divido. Gr.
1. Empty; vacant; not occupied with any visible matter; as a void space or place. 1Kings 22.
2. Empty; without inhabitants or furniture. Gen. 1.
3. Having no legal or binding force; null; not effectual to bind parties, or to convey or support a right; not sufficient to produce its effect. Thus a deed not duly signed and sealed, is void. A fraudulent contract is void, or may be rendered void.
My word shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please. Is. 55.
I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. Jer. 19.
4. Free; clear; as a conscience void of offense. Acts 24.
5. Destitute; as void of learning; void of reason or common sense.
He that is void of wisdom, despiseth his neighbor.
Prov. 11.
6. Unsupplied; vacant; unoccupied; having no incumbent.
Divers offices that had been long void.
7. Unsubstantial; vain.
Lifeless idol, void and vain.
Void space, in physics, a vacuum.
1. To make void; to violate; to transgress.
They have made void thy law. Ps. 119.
2. To render useless or of no effect. Rom. 4.
VOID, n. An empty space; a vacuum.
Pride, where wit falls, steps in to our defense, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Th illimitable void.
VOID, v.t.
1. To quit; to leave.
Bid them come down, or void the field.
2. To emit; to send out; to evacuate; as, to void excrementitious matter; to void worms.
3. To vacate; to annul; to nullify; to render of no validity or effect.
It had become a practice - to void the security given for money borrowed.
4. To make or leave vacant.
VOID, v.i. To be emitted or evacuated.
voided
VOIDED, pp.
1. Thrust out; evacuated.
2. a. In heraldry, having the inner or middle part cut out, as an ordinary.
voiding
VOIDING, ppr.
1. Ejecting; evacuating.
2. Making or declaring void, or of no force.
3. Quitting; leaving.
4. a. Receiving what is ejected; as a voiding lobby.
voidness
VOIDNESS, n.
1. Emptiness; vacuity; destitution.
2. Nullify; inefficacy; want of binding force.
3. Want of substantiality.