VOID, a. L. viduus, divido. Gr.
1. Empty vacant not occupied with any visible matter as a void space or place. 1 Kings 22 .
2. Empty without inhabitants or furniture. Genesis 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. Isaiah 55 .
I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. Jeremiah 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. Psalms 119 .
2. To render useless or of no effect. Romans 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,
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, To be emitted or evacuated.