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VOID. 285 VOID.
13.. Coer de L, 5079 Ther was a many a voyd sadyl.
a 1350 St. Stephen 286 in Horstm. Altengi. Leg, (1881) 31
pairc graues er both voyd & bare. 14. . TundaWs Vis, 2243
Tundale saw,.Asige that was full bryght schynand, But
hyt was voyde wen he saw hyi. ci^yn Merlin iii. 59 At
this table was cuer a voyde place, that betokeneth the place
of ludas. 1474 Caxton Clusse^i'^. ii. (1883) 165 He may
put hy.n in the voyde space to fore the phisicyen. 1483 —
Gold. Leg. 289/1 Whan her fader & moder sawe her chare
come home empty & voide thenne they did do seke their
doubter oueral. 1565 Cooper Thesaurus^ Trattstrunt
vacuum^ a seate voyde oremptie. 1695 Sibbald Autobiog.
(1834) 127 She was interred in her father's grave in the isle
of Torphichen upon the part of the through stone that was
voyd. a 1713 Ellwood Autobiog. (1765) 20, I stept in and
sate down on the first void Seat. 1851 Mrs. Browning
Casa Giiidi WimU i- \2. Behold, instead, Void at Verona,
Juliet's marble trough. z886 Kipling Departtn. Ditties^
etc {1899) 120 * We know the Shrine is void,' they said,
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The Goddess
+ b.
flown '.
Of a horse : Having no rider. Obs, rare.
1470-S5 Malory Arthur iv. viiL 129 Accolon mounted
vpon a voyde hors. 1565 Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Inanis^
Inanis eguus^ a voyde or emptie horse : a leere horse.
C. Of a house or room :
anted. Now chiefly diai.
Unoccupied ; unten-
1479-B1 Rec.se. i^Iary at HiU{ic\ him led,
better hete to haue In ^r way ilk dele i>ei fond voide als
betbe. Ibid. 305 AUe voide was t^e place, pe bataile slayn
& done all within )?zX space 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 390
Sen |»at place in heven bright Was made voyde thurgh pe
syn of pride, c 1380 -SVr Ferutnb. 3221 Wei two Mile to loke
aboute a stryde voide t^er nas, ysX of ^at ilke he)»enene
route al ful was euery plas. 143a tr. Secreta Secret. ^ Priv,
Priv. 129 Otheris sayde that hit was to drcde that thay
sholde fyndc the Cite of grecc woyde. 1423 J as. I Kingis
Q. clxiv. On the quhele was lytill void space, a 1513
Fabvan Chron. \u (1811) 25 Y« kyng wt thaduyce of his
Barons graunted vnto them a voyde and wast countre.
IS35 CovERDALE I Mocc. \\\. 45 As for lerusalem, it laye
voyde, and was as it had bene a wylJernesse. There wenie
no man in nor out at it. 1578 Timhe Calvin on Gen. zo^
That he might know that the world .. should not be a desert
and voyde place for ever. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist.
Scot. I. 184 Finding it [the realm] than voyd in a maner
and bair of Strang handes to defend it. 1653 Jer. Taylor
Sertn.for Year ,'1678) 79 An appetite keen as a Wolf upon
the void plains of the North. 1697 Drydem ^neid ix. 675
Where void spaces on the walls appear. Or thin defence,
they pour their forces there. 1813 Scorr Rokeby w. xvii.
In the void offices around Rung not a hoof, nor bay'd a
bound. 1899 Crockett Kit Kennedy 197 The scanty
pasture-fields were void and empty.
b. Not occupied by buildings or other useful
structures; unutilized, vacant.
144a in Willis& Clark Cambridge {1886) I. 387 For caria^e
of xxxj lodes of lome fro the fundacion of the College, .in
to a woyde place. 1473 Rolls ofParIt. VI. 90/1 A cotage,
and a voide place conteignyng by estimation a Rode. 1519
Churchiv. Ace. .St. Giles, Reading (ed. Nasli) 3 A void
grownd in the North side of the said mill lane. 1548
Nottingham Rec. IV. 93 A tenement late in the tenure of
John Alestre and a voide peyce of grownde with a gardeyn.
1611 Bible / Kings xxii. 10 The King of ludab sate. .in
a voyd place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria.
1665 O. Havers P. tiella Valle's Trav. E. India 50 Near
this Castle Gate, in avoid place of the street are two pulpits
handsomely built of stone. 1687 A. Lovrll tr. TheifenoCs
Traxf. IL 72 Hamadan is a very large Town, but contains
many void places. Gardens, and even ploughed Fields
within it. 1734 tr. Rollin't Anc. Hist. (1837) II. 143 In the
middle of each square was likewise all void ground. 1759
B. .Martin Nat. Hist. 1. 113 There is a great Deal of void
Ground, within the Walls [of Winchester). 1871 Freeman
Norm. Conq. (1876) IV. xviii. 191 Most likely it stood in the
void space between the mound, the gateway, and the later
Castle.
+ 0. Unproductive, uncultivated. Obs.
1398 Tkevisa Barth, De P. R. xiv, xlviii. (Bodl. MS.), A
fcelde ^jat is ycred hatte Noualis ot>er feelde l?at IieJ> voide
euer J>e o[>er 5ere to renewe his vertu. 1615 W. Lawso:*
Country Housrw.Gard.{\626) 6 Men and cat tell (that haue
put trees thence, from out of Plaines to void corners) are
better then trees.
4- Not occupied by visible contents ; containing
no matter ; empty, unfilled : a. Of receptacles, or
things of similar form.
1390 GowEH Con/. II. 191 We. .With voide handes schul
appiere, Touchende oure cure spirital. c 1400 Maundev.
(1839) v. S3 5if J>ei weren sepultures, ^ei scholden not ben
voyd with inne. c 1440 Gesta Rom. Ixi. 255 (Harl. MS.),
Hit is a woyde tonne, caste oute with sum -men fro sura
shippe. c 1500 For to serue a Lord in Babees Bk. f 1868) 370
Cutie away the nekke in a voyde plate. isa3 Ld. Berners
Froiss. I. xviii. 25 All there Cariagis were sette in voyde
granges and barnes, a 1533 — Huon xlv. 150 Incontynent
the cuppe was voyde, and y^ wyne vanysshyd away. 1617
Morysom Itin. Ml. 83 They vse to serue in sower crawt or
cabbage vpon a voide circle of carued Iron standing on three
feete. 1791 Cowpkr Iliad u\. 447 But Venus, foam-sprung
Goddess,, .snapp'd short the brace,.. And the void helmet
follow'd as he pull'd.
b. In general use. (Freq. of place or space.)
I5a3 FiTZHERB. Hush. % 36 The small corne lyeth in the
bolowe and voyde places of the greate beanes. 1598 Barret
Theor. Warres 111. \\. 82 With their shot bestowed, in the
4 voyde angles or corners, a 1639 T. Cakew Truce in Lone
entreated i, Kor see my heart Is made thy Quiver, where
remaines No voyd place for another Uart. a 1680 Butler
Rem. (1759) I. 88 Nor can endure to fill up a void Place, At
a Line's End, with one insipid Phrase. 1697 J. Potter
Antig. Greece I. viii. (1715) 39 The Spaces between. -left
void to admit the Light. 1794 Hutton Philos. Lights etc.
49 It therefore passes as freely through a transparent body
as through the voidest space. 1796 Morse Amer. Geog.
II. 1S2 There are no void spaces among the basaltes. x8ai
Shelley y4rf(?»a7j xtvii, Dart thy spirit's light Beyond all
worlds, until its spacious might Satiate the void circumference.
1865 Swinburne Atalanta 428 An eagle wrought in
gold That, .with void mouth gapes after emptier prey.
Comb. 1857 G. Macdonald Poems 140 The air is as the
breath From the lips of void-eyed Death.
f C. Void rooffit an unfurnished or unoccupied
room serving as an entrance or waiting hall. Obs.
1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 12 You see a
voyd roome before the Kitchln, whiche is an entrie both to
the Kitchin..and to tlie Oxhouses. 1586 J. Hooker Hist.
Irel. in Holinshed II. 123/2 Betweene which & the lower
end of the house is a void roome seruing for the lower
house, and for all sutors.
f d. Of paper, etc. : Blank, not written on ;
containing no writing or lettering. Obs,
1551 AscHAU Lett. Wks. 1865 1. 11. 286 Because this paper
is void, I cannot leave talking with yoiL z6io Holland
Camken's Brit. (1637) 728 A mangled Inscription, .broken
heere and there with voide places betweene. 1669 Sturmy
Mariner's Mag. iv. xvii. 202 Keep the left side of your
Book void, that you may write all the Passages of the Voyage.
1748 Anson's Voy. m. vii. 360 He had every head of
enquiry separately wrote down on a sheet of paper, with a
void space opposite to it.
e. Spec. Having the centre empty or not filled in.
ZS97 Morley Introd. Mus. Annot., There were in old
time foure maners of pricking, one al blacke which they
tearmed blacke full, another which we vse now which they
called black void. 1704 J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Bos,
(ions Void or Hollow, are those that have a Rampart and
Parapet ranging only round about their Flanks and Faces,
so that a void Space is left toward the Centre.
•f* 5. Empty-handed ; destitute, Obs.
CI374 Chaucer Boeth. \\. pr. v. (1868) 50 Vif tou baddest
entred in I'e pal>e of Yys lijf a voide wayfaryng man, (»an
woldest t>ou synge by-fore J>e ^eef. 138a Wyclif Mark xii.
3 The erthe tilieres . . beten him takun, and leften him voyde.
cx4*S Found. St. Bartholome7u's {E.K.T.S.) 25 He wolde
not go from hym voyde. 153a More Confut. Barnes viii.
Wks. 759/1 My Sonne, .shall not retume againe to me voyde
or emptie. For he shall bring with him the fathers out of
Limbus.
t b. Void {pf) course, said of a planet : (see
qaot. 1679). Obs.
f 1^4 Chaucer Compl. Mars 114 Now fleeth Venus unto
Cylenius tour, With voide cours, for fere of Phebus
light 1679 MoxoN Math. Dict.^ Voidof Course. A Planet
is said to be so, when he is separated from one Planet, and
doth not during his being in that Sign, Apply to any other,
either by Body or Aspect.
6. + a. Of persons, etc. : Empty or destitute of
good qualities ; worthless. Obs.
CX380 WvcLiF Wks. (1880) 36 He |>at seij> to his bro|>er
hat hat» he hoH gost . . hat he is voide & wit>-oute kunnynge.
i^a — 2 Peter x. 8 Thei shulen not ordeyne jou voyde, ne
with outen firuyt, in the knowinge of oure Lord Jhesu
Crist, c 1440 Gesta Rom. xcii. 421 (Add. MS.), Ve dreme,
or ellys ye ban fastid to mych, that your hede is voyde.
1563 FoxE A, fr M. ii^t/i They that do persecute, be voyde
and without all truth. 1798 Pope Dune. 11.45 Empty words
she gave, and sounding strain, But senseless, lifeless ! idol
void and vain !
b. Of speech, action, etc. : Ineffective, useless,
leading to no result.
138a Wyclif Isaiah Iv. n My wrd..shal not be turned
a^een voide to me, but shal do what euere thingus I wolde.
i4»» tr. Secreta Secret., Prrv. Priv. 154 In voyde wordis
onely is hare memory makyd. ^1450 tr. De Imitatione i.
XX. ai Wijjdrawe ^isclf fro voide spekinges & idel circuites.
1513 Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 1453 In certaynte haue I
All worldely pleasures,, .and honour. With all voyde busynesse,
and cures transytory. Ibid. 1809 O gloryous vyrgyn,
replete with synguler grace,. .Refusynge voyde pleasures.
1557 Totttls Misc. (Arb.> 145 For all was toy that I did
fcle: And of voide wandering I was free. 1397 Hooker
Eccl.^ Pol. V. Ix. ( 5 Despaire I cannot, nor induce my minde
to thinke his Taith voide. 1605 Bacon Adv. Learn, i. v. { n
The end ought to be, from both philosophies to separate.,
whatsoever is empty and void, and to preserve., whatsoever
is solid and fruitful. 1611 Bible 1 Cor. ix. 15 It
were better for me to die, then that any man should make
my glorying voyd. 1847 Tennvson Princ. vii. 19 Void was
her use, And she as one that climbs a peak to gaze O'er land
and main. 1871 *Stonehence ' Brit, Rur. Sports {^6.^)111.
629/2 Void end means that neither side can score a cast.
Ibid. 630/1 A void end shall be included in this provision.
1881 Dufferis in Lyall Life (1905) II. 1. 13 Any serious
communication we may make to the Ministers is as void as
though it had been confided to the winds.
t c. Of material things : Superfluous, waste.
Ohs. rare.
c Palhd. OH Husb. VI.
144J0 23 This mone is ek for pampinacioun
Conuenicnt : void leves puld to be. 1494-$ Rec.
St. Mary at Hill (1905) 215 For makyng of j ole in the
chirche for voyde water, c 1530 H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture
293 in Babees Bk. (1868) 79 Wyth bones & voyd morsels fyll
not thy irenchour, my friend, full.
d. Of looks : Vacant, rare"^.
1796 Coleridge Destiny 0/ Nations 253 Her flushed
tumultuous features, .now once more Naked, and void, and
fixed.
7. Having no legal force; not binding in law;
legally null, invalid, or ineffectual.
Null and void '. see Null a, 1 b.
i433~4 Rolls of Parlt, V. 437/2 This thaire assent and
grant for to stande in strengthe, and ellus to be as voide and
of noe valeure. c 1475 Harl. Contin. Higden (Rolls) VIII.
511 That parliamente of kynge Ricardus was made voyde
& as of noo valoure. 1496 Rolls of Parlt. VI. 513/1 An
Acte for making voyde of a Statute concerning artificers.
1527 in Trans. Cumbld. ^ Westmoreld. A rchaeol. Soc. (1914)
XIV. 80 This obligacione to be woJde and of non effect.
1560 Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 106 What soever is there
done to be voyde and of none effect. 1593 West 1st Pt.
Symbol. § 102 B, Then the said couenant touching the paiment
of &c. and the deliuering of the said bond to be cancelled,
and either of them shalbe utterly void. 1625 Donne
Serm. 24 Feb. (1626) 43 If the Bill were interlinde, or
blotted, or dropt, the Bill was voyd. 1651 Hobbes Leviath.
II. xxi. iir Covenants, not to defend a mans own body, are
voyd. 167a Dryden Cong. Granada i. i, The Force us'd
on me made that Contract void. 1713 Steele Englishm.
No. 41. 265 She immediately made void certain Grants she
had made. 1774 Jefferson Autobiog. App., Wks. 1859 I.
130 The true ground on which we declare these acts void,
is, that the British Parliament has no right to exercise
authority over us. 1838 Thiklwall Greece II. 46 All
statutes which they deemed void, contradictory, or superfluous.
x86i Ld. Brougham Brit. Const, xiv. 202 The Parliament
declared that the same marriage had from the beginning
been void. 1879 McCarthy Own Times xvWi. II.
35 The election was declared void, and a new writ was issued.
b. In general use: Null, invalid.
1526 Piigr. Perf, (W. de W. 1531) 5 Ceremonyes. .whiche
all were euacuate and made voyde by the passyon of our
sauyour Jesu Chryst. 1530 Rastell Bk. Purgat. Prol.,
That repentaunce that he had before shuld be but voyde.
1604 J AS. I Counterbl. to Tobacco {^Sxh.) 102 Of this Argument,
both the Proposition and Assumption are false, and
sothe Conclusion cannot but be voyd of itselfe. a i68sSikT.
Browne Tracts (1683J 99 This makes void that common
conceit and tradition of the Fish called Faber marinus.
1746 Hoyle Games, Quadrille 36 If there happen to be two
(Jards of the same sort, and found out before the Deal is
ended, the Deal is void, but not otherwise. 1801 Strutt
Sports 9f Past. iv. 225 The cast is void if the ball dees not
enter any of the holes. i8ia Cary Dante^ Parad. lit. 57
Our vows Were, in some part, neglected and made void.
8. Of time : Free from work or occupation ; unemployed,
idle, leisure. Now rare.
c X450 Myrr. our Za^fyt 23 Therefore though, .a lesson be
red but of one alone, yet thinke not that that is a voyde
tynie to all the other to do what they wyll. 1538 Stabkey
England iL i. 161 To haue a conimyn place appoyntyd..
wherin they myght at voyd tymys exercyse themselfys.
xS$i Robinson tr. More's Utopia iv. (1895) 142 All the
voide time, that is betwene the houres of woorke, slepe, and
meate. 1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence^ Heautontitn, i. i,
Haue you so much leasure and voide time from your owne
priuate affaires, that letc.J. 1634 Massinger Very Woman
III. i, I'll chain him in my study, that a void hours I may
run o'er the story of his country. 1853 C. Bbonte Villette
xxiv, 'Ihat void interval which passes for him so slowly.
teems with events for his friends.
f b. Vacant in respect of office ; marked by a
vacancy or interregnum. Obs,
1480 Waterf. Arch, in loM Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm.
App. V. 316 'I'hey that be chosen ballyffs one yere, shal not
be chosen.. without they have one yere voied betwxt. 1496
Ibid. 324 The eldest that have borne the office of Mairaltie
shall nave the same voide day, if he have noo daye before.
1591 Savile Tacitus, Hist. 11. Ixxi. 94 That Valens and
Cxcina might obiaine some voide moneths that yeare to be
Consuls in. 16x4 Raleigh Hist. World u. vi. § 8. 329
ibcre can be no void years fcuind betweene losua and
Othoniel. Ibid, xxii, S u. 558 Yet some coniectures there
are made, which tend to keepe all euen, without acknowledging
any voide time.
t c. Of persons : Unemployed. In quot. Jig.
c 1450 tr. De Imitatione ni. lix. 137 Nature loueh idelnes,
..but ^race can not be voide ner idel, but glatlly taki)>
upon htm labour & traueile.
+ 9. Lacking, wanting. Obs.~-^
*554'9 Songs .5- Ball. Phil, fl- Mary (Roxb.) 4 In Chryst
all fullness of power and myght dothe dwell ; Inhymevoyd
was nothyng tnat was nydfuU and fytt.
•j" 10. Powerless, unable. Obs.~^
1578 RoYixjN in T. Procter Gorg. Gallery A ij b, But
Sicophantes will neuer cease to swell Though (learnedly)
themselues be voyde to write.
II. Const. tf/'(occas. tyr^w).
11. Devoid of, free from, not tainted with (some
bad quality, fault, or defect),
c 1374 Chaucer Former Age 50 The lambish peple, voyd
of all e vyce. C1385— X. G. IV. Prol. 167 Thus thise
foweles, voide ofal malice, .songealleof oonacorde. c 1430
Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 11 And Musik had, voyde
of alle discord, Boece her clerk, withe hevenly armony.
c 1470 Henry Wallace vhl 1624 A ryoll king . . herd oflf
Wallace gouernancc . . and off his pruvyt prys, Off honour,
trewth, and woid ofTcowatis. a 1529 Skelton Calliipt 18
Yet is she fayne, Voyde of disdayn Me to retayne Her
seruiture. 1560 Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 231 b, They
oughte to be free and voyde from anger. 1595 Locrine \\.
ii. 3 We Coblers lead a merie life : . . Void of all enuie and of
strife. 160s Earl Stirling Alexandr. Trag. iv. i, All love
a courteous count'nance, voyd of Art. 1617 Moryson Itin.
\\, 75 The said point could not be thought void of that
cunning, wherein the writer excelled. 1718 Free-thinker
No. 66. 84 Let your Deliberations be void of Animosities.
1815 W. H. Ireland ScribbUomania 260 Our code void of
quirks in a Blackstone is seen. 183a G. R. Porter Porcelain
f^ Gl. xi. 253 A piece of flint glass, . . by no means void
of imperfections. z86a Trollope Orley F i, He was a man
void of mystery, and not given to secrets.
b. Free from, untouched by, not affected or impaired
by (something unpleasant or hurtful).
c 1420 Lydg. Assembly of Gods 809 On a camell rydyng,
as voyde of all care. 1509 Fisher FuPteral Serm. C^tess
Richmond Wks. (1876) 305 A lyfe voyde of all sorow &