Syn. — Empty; vacant; devoid; wanting; unfurnished; unsupplied; unoccupied.
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. 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. Void
(Void), v. i. To be emitted or evacuated. Wiseman.
Voidable
(Void"a*ble) a.
1. Capable of being voided, or evacuated.
2. (Law) Capable of being avoided, or of being adjudged void, invalid, and of no force; capable of being
either avoided or confirmed.
If the metropolitan . . . grants letters of administration, such administration is not, but voidable by sentence.
Ayliffe. A voidable contract may be ratified and confirmed; to render it null and of no effect, it must be avoided; a
void contract can not be ratified.
Voidance
(Void"ance) n.
1. The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating.
2. (Eccl.) A ejection from a benefice.
3. The state of being void; vacancy, as of a benefice which is without an incumbent.
4. Evasion; subterfuge. [Obs.] Bacon.
Voided
(Void"ed), a.
1. Emptied; evacuated.
2. Annulled; invalidated.