King James Bible 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.

VOID'ABLE, adjective That may be annulled or made void, or that may be adjudged void, invalid or of no force.

- Such administration is not void, but voidable by sentence.

VOID'ANCE, noun

1. The act of emptying.

2. The act of ejecting from a benefice; ejection.

3. Vacancy; want of an incumbent.

4. Evasion; subterfuge.

VOID'ED, participle passive

1. Thrust out; evacuated.

2. adjective In heraldry, having the inner or middle part cut out, as an ordinary.

VOID'ER, noun

1. A basket in which broken meat is carried from the table.

2. One who evacuates.

3. One who nullifies.

4. In heraldry, one of the ordinaries, whose figure is much like that of the flanch or flasque.

5. In agriculture, a provincial name of a kind of shallow basket of open work.

VOID'ING, participle present tense

1. Ejecting; evacuating.

2. Making or declaring void, or of no force.

3. Quitting; leaving.

4. adjective Receiving what is ejected; as a voiding lobby.

VOID'NESS, noun

1. Emptiness; vacuity; destitution.

2. Nullify; inefficacy; want of binding force.

3. Want of substantiality.