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VOID.
doth, forlo voyed hem. 1411 tr. Sicreta Secret., Priv.
/>/-(». 240 To kepe kynde hete, and to voyde the stomake,
good IS hit afor mette sumwhate to walke or rydc. leje in
W. H Turner Seltcl. Rec. Oxford (1880) 133 The bochers
..shall voyd and kyll noe moe ware in the sayd bowses.
1S94 R. .Ashley tr. Loys le Roy 49 They would neither.,
spit, nor void their noses into the riuers, but reuercnccd
them aboue all things.
t o. To make void or empty ; to dear or empty
(some thing or place) of its contents or occupants.
1506 in Mim. Hen. VH (Rolls) 288 A little before my
lord Herberd voided all the King's chamber except lords
and officers .. which remained there still. 1580 Lvlv
Eufhutt (Arb.) 227 The chamber being voyded, he brake
with hira in these tearmes. 1600 Holland Liry vii. v. 252
So the roume being voided, and all commaundcd to depart
farre ynough out of the way, he draweth out his skeine.
1616 Marlmves Faustus 111. iv. Good Fredericke sec the
roomes be voyded straight. His Maiesty is comming to the
Hall. 1658 Evelyn Fr. Card. (1675) 4 Thus when your
1 rench is voided and emptied to the depth which you desire *
you shall cast in long dung.
d. To render (a benefice) vacant ; to vacate. Obs.
'f*° \-'^^'^'^-K'"","',fi, ^"''J- "^ W'«" ""y Archbishop!
rick or Blshoprick shall be voided. 1677 W. Mountacu in
BuccUuck MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 327 His living
being voided by his own act, though it would have blen
otherwise if voidetj by death, a 1703 Bp. Kidder in Cassan
Bfs. Rath >, Wells 11. (1830) 126 After 1 had entered upon
Ihis living, and thereby voided that in Essex.
+ e. To exhaust (a subject) by discussion or ex-
position ; to deal with exhaustively or thoroughly.
1659 H. Thorndike Epil. Trag. Ch. Eng. i. xx. 155 Not
to insist here, what the respective interests ofpublick and
private persons in the Church are and ought to be. because
It IS a point that cannot here be voided. 1687 Towerson
Baptism 273 A question which will best be voided by con-
sidering the force of those Arguments, which the condcmners
(1675) 184 He by such witty answers voided the accusation 1
of his Adversary, that the Jurors found him not guilty i64< I
Milton Colast. 19 After waiting and voiding, hee thinkstS
void my second Argument. i«99 Bentley />/,«/. xiv. 470
His Design was .lo account for the Low Sicilian Talent,
and to void all that Mr. B. had written about it before.
II. 1 4. To send or put (a person) away ; to 1
cause or compel to go away from or leave a place •
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to dismiss or expel. Obs.
Freq. const. o>,t of, also more rarelyyre heghest
''••''^'"'''"''l r' '39«-7 in F.ng. Hist. \°'-S\;r'^.."'- Rev.
(1907) 'S^.''- 304 For (>ou t>ese to (= t«oJ craftis nemlid
were michil more nedful in (>eelde lawe, t>e newe testament
hath voydid bese and manie othere. 7 1462 Paston Lett
II. 1 15 That ih' effect of the old purpose of the seid Sir lohn
, 0^0, "f,*),'''"'!"*''"''''"'- '483CAXTONG rf^/a Tour
(1868) 176 Yf one begynne to. .talke with youof suche mater
lele hym alone. .And thus ye shalle voyde and brekc his
talkynge. lil^Li/eHen. r (Kingsford, 1911) 20 By whose
departure the intent of this victorious Kinge was vtterly
empesshed and voyded in that Cause. 1533 More Ansiv.
loysonedBk Wks. 1057/1 Byy marking oithysonepoynl,
ye may voyde almost all the craft, with which master. . Frith
and Tyndall ..labour to deceiue you. 1J97 Hooker Eccl.
Po'.v. 1x11. 5 12 Baptisme. .IS bya fourth sort of men voided
for the onely defect of ecclesiasticall authoritie in the Minis,
ter. 1655 Stanley //w/./'A/Vo/. ill. (,687) 105 /i Now tell
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me if thy adversary Sue thee, and thou art like to be over.
thrown For want of witnesses, how wilt thou void His suit »
/fo//i I (Bundle 43, No. 3»), The said Gilbert voided hymself
owt of the same place without rent or farme paying,
to. Of persons or animals: To go away, depart,
retire, or withdraw from, ;
to leave or quit (a place)
to give (ground) : ; to move out of (the way) ; to
get out of (one's sight) ; = Avoid v. 7. Obs.
Very common from c 1400 to c 1645 ; now Obs. (cf. d).
13.. Caw. 4. Gr. Knt. 545 Bid me bo3e fro bis benche, &
stonde by you bere pat I wy tboute vylanye myjt voyde bis
table, c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace j
(Rolls) 5388 Bot
whare so euere he hem (the Romans) fond He dide hem
sone voyde be lond. c 137^ Chaucer Boetk. i. pr. iv. (1868)
16 He comaunded but bat )>ei voided be citee of Rauenne
by certeyne day assigned bat men scholde . . chasen hem out
ofttjune.