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▪ I. devoid, a.|dɪˈvɔɪd|
Also 5–6 devoide, -voyde, 5 -vode, 6 -voyd.
[Originally pa. pple. of devoid v., short for (or collateral variant of) devoided: see next.]
With of: Empty, void, destitute (of some attribute); entirely without or wanting. (Originally participial, like bereft, and, like the latter, only used predicatively, or following its substantive.)
c1400Rom. Rose 3723 Devoid of pride certaine she was. 1430Lydg. Chron. Troy i. v, So is my meaning cleane devoyde of syn. c1465Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 2 Devode of vices. 1509Hawes Conv. Swearers 47 Go lytell treatyse deuoyde of eloquence. 1530Palsgr. 310/1 Devoyde, without or delyvered of a thyng, vuyde. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 101 He lay speechlesse, deuoid of sence and motion. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. xxxiii. (1682) 126 Though it be not quite devoy'd of all body whatsoever. 1762Falconer Shipwr. iii. 181 A wretch deform'd, devoid of ev'ry grace. 1865W. G. Palgrave Arabia I. 410 A very simple style of dress, devoid of ornament or pretension.
b. without of: Void, empty. rare.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. ix. 15 When I awoke, and found her place devoyd, And nought but pressed gras where she had lyen, I sorrowed all so much as earst I joyd.
▪ II. † devoid, v. Obs. or rare.
Forms: 4–7 devoyde, 4–6 -vode, 5–6 -voyd, -vyde, 5–7 -void(e, (4–5 dewoyde, 5 -voyede, 6 -wod, -woyd, -wid).
[a. OF. de-, desvoidier, -vuidier, -voyder, in mod.F. dévider, f. de-, des- (L. dis-) + vuide, mod. vide, empty. Cf. med.L. disvacuāre, in same sense.
(In 15–16th c. sometimes confused in form with divide.)]
†1. trans. To cast out, get rid of, do away with, remove, expel; to void. Obs.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. A. 15 Wyschande þat wele Þat wont watz whyle deuoyde my wrange. Ibid. B. 544 De-voydynge þe vylanye þat venkquyst his þewez. c1400Rom. Rose 2929 Right so is al his woo fulle soone Devoided clene. a1400–50Alexander 4327 Auyrice & errogaunce & all we devoide. c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 45 Devoyde þo worme⁓etone alle bydene. c1485Digby Myst. iii. 787 We xal gete yow leches, ȝower peynes to devyde. 1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wem. 166, I sall the venome devoid with a vent large, And me assuage of the swalme, that suellit wes gret. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. 45, 61, 63, 64.
†b. To destroy, annihilate. Obs.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 908 For we schal tyne þis toun & trayþely disstrye, Wyth alle þise wyȝez so wykke wyȝtly deuoyde. a1400–50Alexander 3875 To be deuowrid & devoidid and vencuste for euire.
†c. To empty out, pour out, discharge. Obs.
c1450Bk. Curtasye 718 in Babees Bk. (1868) 323 For a pype þer is insyde so clene, Þat water deuoydes, of seluer schene. 1513Douglas æneis xiii. i. 10 The Latyn pepyll..gan devoid [v. r. devode], and hostit owt full cleyr Deip from thar brestis the hard sorow smart.
†2. To vacate; to leave. Obs.
c1325Coer de L. 1228 He took hys doughter by the hand, And bad her swythe devoyde hys land. a1450Le Morte Arth. 1167 There-fore devoyede my companye. 1545Aberdeen Reg. V. 19 (Jam.) He is ordanit to dewid the tovnn within xxiiij houris.
†b. refl. To withdraw (oneself). Obs.
a1400Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 243, I am with ȝow at alle tymes whan ȝe to councel me calle, But for a short tyme myself I devoyde. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 123 Or tha culd diuyde thame of that land, Tha war baith tane and fast bund fit and hand.
†c. intr. (for refl.) To go away, withdraw.
c1485Digby Myst. v. 380 Here lucyfere devoydeth, and commyth in ageyne as a goodly galaunt. 1497in Phil. Trans. XLII. 421 That they devoyd and pass with thame.
†3. trans. To avoid, shun; to get out of the way of. Obs.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxv. xviii, I ful swyftly dyd geve back ful oft, For to devoyde his great strokes unsoft. 1530Palsgr. 515/1 It shalbe harde to devoyde this mater: ce seroyt forte chose de euiter ceste matiere.
†4. To empty; to make void or empty. Obs.
a1400–50Alexander 2938 Alexander..clekis vp þe coupe & putis in his bosom. Anoþire boll was him broȝt & bathe he deuoydid. c1430Lydg. in Turner Dom. Archit. III. 39 The canell scoured was so clene, And deuoyded into secrete wyse.
†b. To empty, clear, rid, free (of). Obs.
c1450Holland Howlat 519, I sal devoid the of det, Or de in the place. c1500Lancelot 1022 Now help thi-self at neid, And the dewod of euery point of dred. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 163 To devoid Scotland Of Inglismen. 1548Gest Pr. Masse 80 Howe coulde the bread and wyne serve to hys purpose, yf they were utterly divoided of theyr accostumed nature?
†5. To render void or of none effect. rare—1.
1601Bp. W. Barlow Defence 225 Least..the Apostles labour, by their carelesse leuitie, or carnall securitie, should bee deuoyded and abased.
6. To make devoid; to divest. rare. nonce-wd.
1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 372 In any minds, so devoided of their religious sentiments.
† Hence deˈvoided ppl. a., divested, made void.
c1430Lydg. Bochas i. ii. (1544) 4 b, As a prince devoyded of all grace Against God he gan for to compasse. 1605Timme Quersit. i. iii. 10 Those things which are made by arte..are deuoided of all sense and motion. |