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.
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, 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, v. i. To be emitted or evacuated. Wiseman.
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.
Void"ance (?), n. 1. The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or
evacuating.