VOID, a.

1. Empty; vacant; not occupied with any visible matter; as a void space or place. 1 Ki 22.

2. Empty; without inhabitants or furniture. Gen 1.

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. Isa 55.

I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. Jer 19.

4. Free; clear; as a conscience void of offense. Acts 24.

5. Destitute; as void of learning; void of reason or common sense.

He that is void of wisdom, despiseth his neighbor.

Prov 11.

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. Psa 119.

2. To render useless or of no effect. Rom 4.

, v.i. To be emitted or evacuated.