void

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

VOID, adjective [Latin viduus, divido. Gr.] 1. Empty; vacant; not occupied with any visible matter; as a void space or place. 1 Kings 22:10. 2. Empty; without inhabitants or furniture. Genesis 1:2. 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. Isaiah 55:11. I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. Jeremiah 19:7. 4. Free; clear; as a conscience void of offense. Acts 24:16. 5. Destitute; as void of learning; void of reason or common sense. He that is void of wisdom, despiseth his neighbor. Proverbs 11:12. 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. Psalms 119:126. 2. To render useless or of no effect. Romans 4:14. VOID, noun 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, verb transitive 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, verb intransitive To be emitted or evacuated.
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