VOID, a. [L. viduus, divido. Gr.]

1. Empty; vacant; not occupied with any visible matter; as, a void space or place. – 1 Kings xxii.
2. Empty; without inhabitants or furniture. – Gen. i.
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. lv. I wilt make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. – Jer. xix.
4. Free; clear; as, a conscience void of offence. – Acts xxiv.
5. Destitute; as, void of learning; void of reason or common sense. He that is void of wisdom, despiseth his neighbor. – Prov. xi.
6. Unsupplied; vacant; unoccupied; having no incumbent. Divers offices that had been long void. – Camden.
7. Unsubstantial; vain. Lifeless idol, void and vain. – Pope. Void space, in physics, a vacuum. To make void, to violate; to transgress. They have made void thy law. – Ps. cxix. #2. To render useless or of no effect. – Rom. iv.

An empty space; a vacuum. Pride, where wit falls, steps in to our defense, / And fills up all the mighty void of sense. – Pope. Th' illimitable void. – Thomson.

To be emitted or evacuated. – Wiseman.

1. To quit; to leave. Bid them come down, / Or void the field. – Shak.
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. – Clarendon.
4. To make or leave vacant.

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. An empty space; a vacuum.
   
   

   Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defense,
   And fills up all the mighty void of sense. Pope.

3. 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.

4. To be emitted or evacuated.
   
   
   Wiseman.
5. Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like.
   
   

   Divers great offices that had been long void. Camden.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
    
    
    "Idol, void and vain." Pope.
11. 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.