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VOID,
encombraunce. 15a* More De gnat. Noviss. Wks. 81/1 So
y^ neuer any of them had euer in their Hues knowen or
herd, either themself or any other voyd of those disseases.
1560 Daus tr. SUidatte's Comtn. 101 A place myght be
assigned for the counsel!, voyde of all daunger and suspicion,
c 1586 C'tkss Pembroke Ps. lix. vi, They prate and
bable voide of feare. 1607 Topsell Four-/. Beasts^yi Some
would haue him kept in a close, darke and quiet house,
voyde from all noise. i'self as void of all doubt but you
would become a Catholick. i8a8 Scott F, M. Perth xxxiv,
Eachin alone had left it (the battle-ground) void of wounds.
1878 Marie A. Brow.s tr. Runeber^s Nadeschda iii. 37 And
void of fear.. She goes to Woldmar.
f o. Clear or quit of (a person) ; vacant in
respect of. Obs.
a 1548 Hall Chron., Rick. 111^ 48 b, Nowe nothinge was
contrariant. .to his pernicious purpose, but that his mancion
was not voide of his wife. 1560 Daus tr. Sieidane's Cotnm,
993 b, In the countrey round about were forces of Spanyardes
and Italians. Of wbome to be voyde and free, they
..payde thirty thousand.. crownes. 1651 N. Bacon Disc.
Govt. Eng. II. XXIV. 188 The Parliament ..declared the
Throne void of Edward the Fourth, and Henry the Sixth
King.
12. Destitute of, not graced or ennobled by (some
virtue or good quality).
c 1400 Pitgr. Saivle (Caxton) iv. xxix. (1859) 62 Thou arte
veyne, and voyde of a! maner of vertue. 1467 Songs Costutne
(Percy Soc.) 56 Ye poope holy prestis full of presomcion,
. . voyd of discrecion. 1^38 Dunbar Flyting 61, 1 se the
haltane in thy harlotrie,. .Off every vertew woyd. 1553
Eden Treat. New Ittd. (Arb.) 24 The inhabitantes are..
vtterly voyde of all godly knowledge. 1555 — Decades
(Arb.) 52 vnthankefull Englande and voyde of honest
shame. 1590 Sir J. Smyth Disc. IVeapons Ded. 3 They
haue been so voide of the orders and exercises of war of
their forefathers. i6ia Tivo Noble K. \\\, i, O thou most
periidious That ever gently lookd ;
the voydest of honour
That eu'r bore gentle Token. 1667 Mii.ton P. L. ix. 1074
Bad Fruit of Knowledge,. .Which leaves us naked thus, of
Honour void, x686 in Verney Mem. (1907) II. 410, I am not
so void of reson at this age hot that I can refran from duing
myself and family any damag by play. 1706 Estcourt
Fair Example v. i, Beauty, tho" void of Virtue, has the
Power To make as well the Wise as Fools adore. 1743
BuLKELEY& Cummins V^oy. S.Seas 136 But Hunger is void
of all Compassion. 178J Miss Burney Cecilia vi. iv, She
was totally void of judgment or discretion, 1817 Jas. Mill
Brit. India II, v. vjii. 660 Whom he represents as too void
ofcharacter, to write anything of himself. 1831 Mackintosh
Hiit. Eng. II. 44 He was as void of manly as of kingly
virtues. 1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Const, xiv. 206 A person
void of capacity, without any experience.
b. Destitute or deprived of, lacking or wanting
(something desirable or natural).
The groups of quotations illustrate different types of
context.
(a) c 14*0 LvDG. Assembly 0/ Gods 1382 Came thedyr
Attropos, voyde of all gladness, Wrappyd in hys shete.
1533 Bellendfn /-zz'>' (S.T.S.) I. 298 pai war vode of all
gude esperance. 1567 Gude ^ Godlie Ball. (S.T.S.) 33
Woide of all joy, but full of painfulnes. 1593 Timme Ten
Eng, Lepers Kiij, They find that they are utterly void
of all helpe. 1613 Drayton Poly-olb. v. 341 Voyd of all
delight, cold, barren, bleake and dry. 1690 Child Disc.
Trade (i6p8) 14 The people poor, despicable, and voide of
commerce. 1697 Dryden yirg. Georg. iv. 676 He took his
way, thro* Forrests void of Light. 1709 Berkeley Tk.
Vision § 90 It would not at first view be altogether void of
probability. 174a Young Nt. Th. vii. 643 Life void of joy,
Sad prelude of Eternity in pain ! 1812 Crabbe Tales 11.
194 By various shores, he passed, on various seas, Never so
h^lappy
as when void of ease. 186a Burton Bk. Hitnter
(18(53) 309 The records of endurance and martyrdom for
conscience sake, can never be void of interest.
ib) X4aa tr. Secreta Secret.^ Priv. Priv. 240 Ryghtful houre
of ettynge is, whan the stomake is purchet and clenset, and
voyde of the mette. 1563 B. Googe Eglogs v. (Arb.) 47 Thy
face good Egon [is] voide of blud, thine eies amased stare.
x^i W. FuLKE in Confer, in. (1584) Oiijb, Nay, hee
saith plainely, they are not Experies corporis^ voyde of
body. 1656 Stanley Hist. Philos. v. (1687) 185/2 If matter
it self be in it self void of measure, it is necessary that it
receive measure from some superiour. _ 1728 T. Sheridan tr.
Persius v. (1739) 68 A white Shield void of any Figures in it.
1794 R. J. Sulivan Vieiv Nat. I, 378 This water, when
newly melted., is totally void both of air, and of the aerial
acid. x8iS J Smith Panorama Sci. ^ Art II. 489 It is
colourless and void of smell, but intensely saline and bitter.
1839 Chapters Phys. Sci. 124 Leaving 1727 cubic inches
void of any material substance. 1859 Jephson & Reeve
Brittany 237 The surface of the water was perfectly void
of any ripple.
(c) 1432-50 tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 339 Philippus, kynge
of Macedony, scholde destroye sone the cite if that hit were
vacuate and voide of discrete men, 1500-20 Dunbar Poems
Jxxii. 97 Mcthocht Compassioun, vode of feiris. Than straik at
me with monyanestound. a 1513 Fabvan Chrun. vii.(r533)
1 1. B b/a To espye when he were voyde of his company, and
then to takehym. z6oo J. PoRYtr. Leo's Africa vni. 298 He
marched through wilde and desert places voide of inhabitants.
163a Lithgow Tra7}. x. 505 The Inhabitants being
left void of a Gouernour, or solid Patrone.
id) \$i-^ Life Henry K (Kingsford, 1911) 126 Whereby
the Englishmen, voide of there requests, returned to there
lodges. 1670 G. H. Hist. Cardinals in. 1. 240 He was depos'd,
and declar'd void of the Papacy.
B* sb»^\* fa. One who is devoid ^something.
Obs,—^
1614 SvLvesTEB Befhulia's Rescue \v. 186 Their immodest
flame Fires none but Fools, Fraiitiks, or Voids of shame.
286
b. A state or condition devoid ij/" something ; a
lack or want. rare.
1786 Phil. Trans. LXXVI. 274 On account of the impossibility
of making a perfect void of air by means of the
pump. 1788 Weslhy iVks. (1872) VI. 352 Men in whom
pride, .supplies the void of sense. 1789 Jkfferson It^rit.
(1859) II. 559 Nor has the society he has kept been such as
to supply the void of education. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2)
IV. 273 Space is the void of outward objects.
2. Emptiness, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum.
as6i8 Sylvester Trag. Hen. Gt. 602 Who, from the
Ocean, Motion can recall, Heat from Fiie, Void from Air,
Order from All. 1781 Lofet Eudosia vi. 349 In perfect
void, the medium lost,.. All substances with like velocity
Descend. 1871 B. Taylor Faust (1875) II. i. v. 67 Naught
shalt thou see in endless void afar. 1878 Stewart & Tait
Unseen Univ. iv. 5 121. 133 But there is also void in things,
else they would be jammed together.
fig. i860 PusEY Mzn. Proph. 471 It leaves the feeling of
void and forsakenness.
3. a. Arch. A space left in a wall for a window,
or door ; the opening of an arch ; any unfilled
space in a building or structure.
1616 E.rtr. Aberdeen Reg. (1848) II. 341 The said Thomas
..sail build ane voyd hard be the said passage for letting
doun the paissis frome the knock. 17*3 Chambers it. Le
Clerc's Treat. Archit. I. 138 Massive is found over Massive,
and Void under Void. 174a De Foe's Tour Gt. Bnt. (ed. 3)
II. 120 The Thickness of each Pier is not one Third Part
of the Void of each Arch. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm I.
163 A very loose mode of. . measuring voids, as the openings
of doors and windows are termed. x88