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.
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