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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Void \Void\, v. i. To be emitted or evacuated. --Wiseman. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Void \Void\, a. [OE. voide, OF voit, voide, vuit, vuide, F. vide, fr (assumed) LL vocitus, fr L. vocare an old form of vacare to be empty, or a kindred word Cf {Vacant}, {Avoid}.] 1. Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled. The earth was without form and void. --Gen. i. 2. I 'll get me to a place more void. --Shak. I 'll chain him in my study, that at void hours, I may run over the story of his country. --Massinger. 2. Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like Divers great offices that had been long void. --Camden. 3. Being without destitute; free wanting; devoid; as void of learning, or of common use --Milton. A conscience void of offense toward God. --Acts xxiv. 16. He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor. --Prov. xi 12. 4. Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain. [My word] shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please. --Isa. lv 11. I will make void the counsel of Judah. --Jer. xix. 7. 5. Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul. ``Idol, void and vain.'' --Pope. 6. (Law) Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf {Voidable}, 2. {Void space} (Physics), a vacuum. Syn: Empty; vacant; devoid; wanting; unfurnished; unsupplied unoccupied. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Void \Void\, n. An empty space; a vacuum. Pride, where wit fails steps in to our defense, And fills up all the mighty void of sense --Pope. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Void \Void\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Voided}; p. pr & vb n. {Voiding}.] [OF. voidier vuidier See {Void}, a.] 1. To remove the contents of to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit to leave as to void a table. Void anon her place --Chaucer. If they will fight with us bid them come down Or void the field. --Shak. 2. To throw or send out to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as to void excrements. A watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices. --Barrow. With shovel, like a fury, voided out The earth and scattered bones. --J. Webster. 3. To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify. After they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken --Bp. Burnet. It was become a practice . . . to void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed. --Clarendon. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: void adj 1: lacking legal force [syn: {nugatory}, {null}] 2: containing nothing; "the earth was without form and void" n 1: the state of nonexistence [syn: {nothingness}, {nullity}] 2: an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space" [syn: {vacancy}, {emptiness}] v 1: declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "avoid a plea" [syn: {invalidate}, {annul}, {quash}, {avoid}, {nullify}] [ant: {validate}] 2: take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidateas a contract" [syn: {invalidate}, {vitiate}] [ant: {validate}] 3: excrete or discharge from the body [syn: {evacuate}, {eliminate}, {empty}]
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