† voidn.2
Obsolete.
= voidee n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > retiring or secondary meal
voideec1374
rere-suppera1393
void1461
rere-banquet1530
after-meala1600
after-supper1600
postpast1603
rere feast?1615
arrière supper1889
1461–83 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 36 The King never taketh a voyd of comfittes and other spices, but standing.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 934/1 To whome the earle of Sussex in a goodlie spice plate brought a void of spice and comfets.
1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale iii. 91 After the void, praeserves in silvern plate Set suche a postscripte to ann antedate, As not a common penn knowes to define.
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voidadj.n.1
/vɔɪd/, U.S. /vɔɪd/ A. adj.
I. Empty, vacant, destitute, null, and related uses.† 5. † b. void (of) course, said of a planet: (see quot. 1679). Obsolete.† 9. Lacking, wanting. Obsolete. rare.† 10. Powerless, unable. Obsolete. rare.
1. † c. void money n. money which has accumulated during the vacancy of an office. Obsolete.
a. Of a see, benefice, etc.: having no incumbent, holder, or possessor; unoccupied, vacant.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > benefice > kinds of benefice > [adjective] > unoccupied
voidc1300
vaking1572
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [adjective] > relating to throne (see of bishop) > unoccupied
voidc1300
c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 594 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 123 Þat no bischopriche ne non Abbeie also, Þat were voyde with-oute prelat, In þe kingus hond were I-do.
c1450 Contin. Brut ii. 360 Ser Roger Walden, that King Richard had made Archebischop of Caunterbury, he made Bischop of London, for þat time it stode voyde.
1473–5 in Cal. Proc. Chanc. Q. Eliz. (1830) II. Pref. 61 They beyng so seased, the chirch fell voyde.
1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 25 §2 Whensoever..any of ther Sees to be voyde be eny other ways.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 36 The See was voyde fiue yeres, and the goodes of the Church spent to the kinges vse.
1607 M. Drayton Legend Cromwel 30 If some Abbey hapned voyd to fall By death of him that the superiour was.
1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) ii. iii. vii. 324 I know not..in what Cathedral Church, a fat Prebend fell voide.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 121 Winchester lay void six, and Sherburn seven yeares.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 684 In the said See, after it had laid void till Nov. 1688, did succeed Dr. Tho. Lamplugh.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 177 He was removed to Winchester, void by Duppa's death.
1785 W. Paley Princ. Moral & Polit. Philos. iii. i. xx The advowson of a void turn, by law, cannot be transferred from one patron to another.
1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 223/2 If a donative is the second living taken without a dispensation, the first is not made void by the statute.
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. iii. iii. 184 The chairs of the prelates of London and Canterbury were void.
b. Similarly of secular offices.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > [adjective] > vacant (of an office)
vacantc1290
voida1387
vacand1405
avoid1488
vaking1572
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 109 Norþhumberlonde was voyde wiþoute kyng eiȝte ȝere.
c1435 in C. L. Kingsford Chron. London (1905) 43 Hit was knowyn that thurh the deposicion,..and causes fforseyd,..the Rewme off Englond was voyde ffor the tyme.
c1500 Melusine (1895) xix. 67 Your fader..lefte hys landes and possessyons voyde, without lord.
1535 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 398 I am acerteynyd that the Rowmes of your foure Clarkes are now furnyshyd & non of theym voide.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clviiiv This office had bene euer voyde synce the death of the Duke of Bourbon.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 54 To bee Lord President of Mounster, which place had layen void some few moneths.
1670 I. Walton Life H. Wotton 47 in Lives The Provostship of His Majesties Colledge of Eaton became void by the death of Mr. Thomas Murray.
1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1710) i. i. iii. 6 Seventy Queen's Scholars are..sent yearly to King's College in Cambridge, as Places become void.
1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 645 This last was evidently the Earldom made void by the death of Ælfhelm.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] > money accumulated during a vacancy
void money1513
1513 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Rec. off voyd money at þe payment off Lomas. Rec. off voyd money off þe payment off Phelyp and Jacobe.
1539 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Rec. of the voyd money vs. ij d.
2. † b. Of a horse: having no rider. Obsolete. rare.
a. Of a seat, saddle, etc.: having no occupant; in which no one is sitting, lying, etc.; empty.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [adjective]
voida1350
unoccupied1560
absent1587
devoid1590
vacant1600
naked1643
vacated1791
untrenched1887
a1350 St. Stephen 286 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Leg. (1881) 31 Þaire graues er both voyd & bare.
a1400 Coer de L. 5079 Ther was a many a voyd sadyl.
14.. Tundale's Vis. 2243 Tundale saw..A sige that was full bryght schynand, But hyt was voyde wen he saw hyt.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. ii. 165 He may put hym in the voyde space to fore the phisicyen.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 289/1 Whan her fader & moder sawe her chare come home empty & voide thenne they did do seke their douȝter oueral.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin iii. 59 At this table was euer a voyde place, that betokeneth the place of Iudas.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Transtrum vacuum, a seate voyde or emptie.
1695 R. Sibbald Autobiogr. (1834) 127 She was interred in her father's grave in the isle of Torphichen upon the part of the through stone that was voyd.
a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1765) 20 I stept in and sate down on the first void Seat.
1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. ii. 4 Behold, instead, Void at Verona, Juliet's marble trough!
1886 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (1899) 120 ‘We know the Shrine is void,’ they said, ‘The Goddess flown’.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [adjective] > of or relating to horse for riding > riderless
void1470
unstridden1570
leer1591
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur iv. viii. 129 Accolon mounted vpon a voyde hors.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Inanis Inanis equus, a voyde or emptie horse: a leere horse.
c. Of a house or room: unoccupied; untenanted. Now chiefly dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > non-possession > fact of not being possessed or owned > [adjective] > unoccupied
unoccupied1425
void1479
vacant1518
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [adjective] > not > empty or unoccupied
emptyOE
unoccupied1425
void1479
vacant1518
waste1574
distenanted1594
tenantlessa1616
empse1642
untenanted1677
dead1879
1479–81 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 96 A howse at fayster lane, voyd by iij quarters.
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xlviv/2 The same ten[emen]t..stod woyde without ani tenant many yeres afore.
1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures 10 Happily they slipped into some Noble mans voide house in London.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 471 720 Mansions: whereof 224 stood void.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Cock & Fox in Fables 231 Ev'ry Inn so full: That no void Room in Chamber, or on Ground,..was to be found.
3. † c. Unproductive, uncultivated. Obsolete.
a. Of places: destitute of occupants or inhabitants; not occupied or frequented by living creatures; deserted, empty.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [adjective] > not
unbiggedc1175
desert1297
void1338
desolatec1374
unhabited1490
inhabitable?1529
disinhabit1530
depopulate1531
uninhabita1540
unpeopled1547
undwelta1557
uninhabited1571
dishabited1577
dispeopled1577
unhabit1580
disinhabited1600
desertful1601
unmanned1609
inhabited1614
peopleless1621
deserted1629
depopulated1632
unhabitated1648
unseated1662
desolated1693
unpopulous1715
unsettled1724
unpopulated1776
bandless1862
populationless1885
unlived-in1927
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [adjective] > deserted
manlessOE
willc1330
void1338
desolatec1374
destitute1382
blouta1522
destituted1550
unmanned1609
lifeless1615
deserted1629
vaked1638
vacant1791
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 192 Tille Acres þei him led, better hele to haue In þey way ilk dele þei fond voide als hethe.
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 305 Alle voide was þe place, Þe bataile slayn & done all within þat space.
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 390 Sen þat place in heven bright Was made voyde thurgh þe syn of pride.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3221 Wel two Mile to loke aboute a stryde voide þer nas, þat of þat ilke heþenene route al ful was euery plas.
1423 Kingis Quair clxiv On the quhele was lytill void space.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 129 Otheris sayde that hit was to drede that thay sholde fynde the Cite of grece woyde.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. xxxii. f. xiiiv Ye kyng wt thaduyce of his Barons graunted vnto them, A voyde & wast Countre.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Macc. iii. 45 As for Ierusalem, it laye voyde, and was as it had bene a wyldernesse. There wente no man in nor out at it.
1578 T. Tymme tr. J. Calvin Comm. Genesis 209 That he might know that the world..should not be a desert and voyde place for ever.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 184 Finding it [sc. the realm] than voyd in a maner and bair of strang handes to defend it.
1653 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year (1678) 79 An appetite keen as a Wolf upon the void plains of the North.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 484 Where void Spaces on the Walls appear, Or thin Defence, they pour their Forces there.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby ii. 78 In the void offices around, Rung not a hoof, nor bayed a hound.
1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy 197 The scanty pasture-fields were void and empty.
b. Not occupied by buildings or other useful structures; unutilized, vacant.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [adjective] > not > vacant or not occupied by buildings
void1442
1442 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 387 For cariage of xxxj lodes of lome fro the fundacion of the College..in to a woyde place.
1473 Rolls of Parl. VI. 90/1 A cotage, and a voide place conteignyng by estimation a Rode.
1519 in W. L. Nash Churchwardens' Acct. Bk. St. Giles, Reading (1851) 3 A void grownd in the North side of the said mill lane.
1548 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 93 A tenement late in the tenure of John Alestre and a voide peyce of grownde with a gardeyn.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings xxii. 10 The King of Iudah sate..in a voyd place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria. View more context for this quotation
1665 G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India 50 Near this Castle Gate, in a void place of the street are two pulpits handsomely built of stone.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 72 Hamadan is a very large Town, but contains many void places, Gardens, and even ploughed Fields within it.
1738 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) II. 17 In the middle of each square, was likewise all void ground.
1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. 113 There is a great Deal of void Ground, within the Walls [of Winchester].
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xviii. 191 Most likely it stood in the void space between the mound, the gateway, and the later Castle.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [adjective]
westeeOE
wildc893
wastyc1230
wastec1290
untilled1297
void1398
wilsomea1400
desolate1413
wastablea1450
unlaboured1474
untilthed1495
spare1508
unmanured1541
unculted1548
uncultured1555
Hyrcan1567
untoiled1578
manureless1595
griggy1597
Wealdish1598
Hyrcanian1600
unwrought1600
wealy1601
uncultived1605
incult1624
unmanaged1634
incultivateda1657
uncultivate1659
uncultivated1684
unreclaimed1753
wildered1810
irreclaimed1814
natural1827
feral1882
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xiv. xlviii A feelde þat is yered hatte Noualis oþer feelde þat lieþ voide euer þe oþer ȝere to renewe his vertu.
1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 6 Men and cattell (that haue put trees thence, from out of Plaines to void corners) are better then trees.
4. Not occupied by visible contents; containing no matter; empty, unfilled:in combination.1857 G. MacDonald Poems 140 The air is as the breath From the lips of void-eyed Death.† c. void room n. an unfurnished or unoccupied room serving as an entrance or waiting hall. Obsolete.† d. Of paper, etc.: blank, not written on; containing no writing or lettering. Obsolete.
a. Of receptacles, or things of similar form.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [adjective] > empty
idlec825
toomOE
lankc1000
emptyOE
leera1250
i-lerc1275
vain1382
void1390
bare1399
vacanta1400
i-voidec1415
hollow1600
vake1600
clear1607
inane1662
blank1748
viduous1855
unchargeda1861
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 191 We..With voide handes schul appiere, Touchende oure cure spirital.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) v. 53 Ȝif þei weren sepultures, þei scholden not ben voyd with inne.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) lxi. 255 Hit is a woyde tonne, caste oute with sum men fro sum shippe.
c1500 Ffor to serve a Lord in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 374 Cutte away the nekke in a voyde plate.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xlv. 150 Incontynent the cuppe was voyde, and ye wyne vanysshyd away.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xviii. 25 All there Cariagis were sette in voyde granges and barnes.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 83 They vse to serue in sower crawt or cabbage vpon a voide circle of carued Iron standing on three feete.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. iii. 447 But Venus, foam-sprung Goddess,..snapp'd short the brace,..And the void helmet follow'd as he pull'd.
b. In general use. (Frequently of place or space.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > [adjective] > absolutely empty (of space)
emptyOE
void?1523
vacuous1656
vacuitous1766
chasmy1855
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [adjective] > empty of visible objects
void?1523
objectless1798
vacuous1877
blank-looking1881
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xix Ye smale corne lyeth in the holowe & voyde place of the great beanes.
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 82 With their shot bestowed, in the 4 voyde angles or corners.
1640 T. Carew Poems 69 For see my heart Is made thy Quiver, where remaines No voyd place for another Dart.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 88 Nor can endure to fill up a void Place, At a Line's End, with one insipid Phrase.
1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. viii. 40 The Spaces between..left Void to admit the Light.
1794 J. Hutton Diss. Philos. Light 49 It therefore passes as freely through a transparent body as through the voidest space.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 182 There are no void spaces among the basaltes.
1821 P. B. Shelley Adonais xlvii. 22 Dart thy spirit's light Beyond all worlds, until its spacious might Satiate the void circumference.
1865 A. C. Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon 428 An eagle wrought in gold That..with void mouth gapes after emptier prey.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > waiting room
waiting-chamber?a1562
void room1577
waiting-room1683
waiting-lobby1837
salle des pas perdus1839
salle d'attente1863
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 12 You see a voyd roome before the Kitchin, whiche is an entrie both to the Kitchin..and to the Oxhouses.
1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 123/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Betweene which & the lower end of the house is a void roome seruing for the lower house, and for all sutors.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [adjective] > blank paper, not written upon
white1466
void1551
blanka1555
empty1579
fair1606
uninked1637
clean1704
1551 R. Ascham Lett. in Wks. (1865) I. ii. 286 Because this paper is void, I cannot leave talking with you.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 728 A mangled inscription..broken heere and there with voide places betweene.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. xvii. 202 Keep the left side of your Book void, that you may write all the Passages of the Voyage.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. vii. 360 He had every head of enquiry separately wrote down on a sheet of paper, with a void space opposite to it.
e. spec. Having the centre empty or not filled in.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [adjective]
hollc1000
hollowa1250
hollowyc1400
howea1500
kosche1513
cave1540
boss1553
concave?a1560
concavous1578
unkernelled1584
void1597
wombya1616
cavous1698
cavernous1830
cavitary1861
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Annot. sig. ¶4 There were in old time foure maners of pricking, one al blacke which they tearmed blacke full, another which we vse now which they called black void.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Bastions Void or Hollow, are those that have a Rampart and Parapet ranging only round about their Flanks and Faces, so that a void Space is left toward the Centre.
a. Empty-handed; destitute. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > very poor or destitute
(as) poor as JobOE
nakedOE
voidc1374
naisa1400
vacant1430
(as) drunk, (also mad, poor, rank, weak, etc.) as a rat?1548
Hungarian1608
pauper1690
destitute1735
farthingless1834
pebble-beached1890
piss-poor1945
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) ii. pr. v. 50 Yif þou haddest entred in þe paþe of þis lijf a voide wayfaryng man, þan woldest þou synge by-fore þe þeef.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark xii. 3 The whiche [sc. erthe tilieres] beten him takun, and leften him voyde.
c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 25 He wolde not go from hym voyde.
1532 T. More Confut. Barnes in Wks. (1557) 759/1 My sonne..shall not returne againe to me voyde or emptie. For he shall bring with him the fathers out of Limbus.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > planet > position of planet > [noun] > void of course
void (of) coursec1374
c1374 G. Chaucer Compl. Mars 114 Now fleeth Venus unto Cylenius tour, With voide cours, for fere of Phebus light.
1679 J. Moxon Math. made Easie 162 Void of Course. A Planet is said to be so, when he is separated from one Planet, and doth not during his being in that Sign, Apply to any other, either by Body or Aspect.
6. † a. Of persons, etc.: empty or destitute of good qualities; worthless. Obsolete.† c. Of material things: superfluous, waste. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > worthlessness > [adjective]
forcouthc888
goodlesseOE
undoughtya1225
voidc1380
bare1399
stark naught1528
worthilessa1542
queer1567
worthless1573
hilding1577
baggage1580
arrant1581
offal1588
lorel1590
losel1601
ragamuffin1602
loselled1606
loselly1611
valuelessa1616
ragamuffa1626
good-for-nothing1706
ne'er-do-well1773
rotten1813
neat1824
scamping1832
good-for-naught1835
no good1838
scampish1847
ne'er-do-wellish1890
no good1904
upter1919
never-do-well1933
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 36 He þat seiþ to his broþer þat haþ þe holi gost..þat he is voide & wiþ-oute kunnynge.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Pet. i. 8 Thei shulen not ordeyne ȝou voyde, ne with outen fruyt, in the knowinge of oure Lord Jhesu Crist.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Add. MS.) xcii. 421 Ye dreme, or ellys ye han fastid to mych, that your hede is voyde.
c1530 Let. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 1346/1 They that do persecute, be voyde and without all truth.
1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 30 Empty words she gave, and sounding strain; But senseless, lifeless! Idol void and vain!
b. Of speech, action, etc.: ineffective, useless, leading to no result.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adjective]
idlec825
unnuteOE
bricklec1225
tooma1250
unnaita1250
vaina1300
waste1303
overvoida1382
voida1382
superfluec1384
daylessa1387
unbehovely1390
unprofitablea1398
unbehoveful1429
wastefulc1450
idleful1483
fruster1488
vainful1509
frustrate?a1513
superfluousa1533
addle1534
lost1535
fittle1552
futilea1575
nugatory1605
futilous1607
shiftless1613
tympanous1625
emptya1628
frustraneousa1643
pointless1673
futilitous1765
otiose1795
stultificatory1931
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. lv. 11 My wrd..shal not be turned aȝeen voide to me, but shal do what euere thingus I wolde.
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi i. xx. 23 Wiþdrawe þiself fro voide spekinges & idel circuites.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 154 In voyde wordis onely is hare memory makyd.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xiv. sig. e.iiiiv In certaynte haue I All worldely pleasures..and honour With all voyde busynesse, and cures transytory.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xvii. sig. f.iii O Gloryous vyrgyn, replete with synguler grace..Refusynge voyde pleasures.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. S.ii For all was ioy that I did fele: And of voide wandering I was free.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lx. 134 Despaire I cannot, nor induce my minde to thinke his faith voide.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. G4 The end ought to bee from both Philosophies, to separate..whatsoeuer is emptie and voide, and to preserue..whatsoeuer is solide and fruitfull. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Cor. ix. 15 It were better for me to die, then that any man should make my glorying voyd . View more context for this quotation
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess vii. 143 Void was her use; And she as one that climbs a peak to gaze O'er land and main.
1871 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 9) iii. 629/2 Void end means that neither side can score a cast.
1871 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 9) iii. 630/1 A void end shall be included in this provision.
1881 Marquis of Dufferin in A. Lyall Life Marquis of Dufferin (1905) II. i. 13 Any serious communication we may make to the Ministers is as void as though it had been confided to the winds.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > excessive or superfluous > superfluous or unnecessary
wastec1380
voidc1440
superfluousc1450
supererogative1538
supererogatory1549
supervacaneala1575
supervacaneousa1575
supervacuous1577
supernumerary1617
excrescent1633
expletive1656
expletory1679
supererogant1737
ripieno1781
excrescentitious1833
excrescential1849
fifth-wheel1874
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. vi. 23 This mone is ek for pam~pinacioun Conuenient: void leves puld to be.
1494–5 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 215 For makyng of j ole in the chirche for voyde water.
?1545 H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture sig. Bi With bones and voyde morsels fyl not thy trencher to full.
d. Of looks: vacant. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [adjective] > without expression or expressionless
mask-like1584
wooden-faced1605
void1796
muffin-faced1823
blank1859
blank-faced1881
poker-faced1915
stone-faced1932
po-faced1934
1796 S. T. Coleridge Destiny of Nations 253 Her flushed tumultuous features..now once more Naked, and void, and fixed.
7.
a. Having no legal force; not binding in law; legally null, invalid, or ineffectual.null and void: see null adj. 1c.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > rule of law > illegality > [adjective] > legally invalid or faulty
vicious1393
void1433
naughtc1449
irrite1482
frustrate1497
null1542
bad1613
inofficial1632
null and void1651
unfirm1660
uncurrent1702
invalid1768
inept1818
inoperative1885
1433–4 Rolls of Parl. V. 437/2 This thaire assent and grant for to stande in strengthe, and ellus to be as voide and of noe valeure.
c1475 Harl. Contin. Higden (Rolls) VIII. 511 That parliamente of kynge Ricardus was made voyde & as of noo valoure.
1496 Rolls of Parl. VI. 513/1 An Acte for making voyde of a Statute concerning artificers.
1527 in Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. (1914) 14 80 This obligacione to be woide and of non effect.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cvj What soeuer is there done to be voyde and of none effect.
1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §B Then the said couenant touching the paiment of &c. and the deliuering of the said bond to be cancelled, and either of them shalbe utterly void.
1626 J. Donne Serm. Whitehall 43 If the Bill were interlinde, or blotted, or dropt, the Bill was voyd.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxi. 111 Covenants, not to defend a mans own body, are voyd.
1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. i. i. 11 The force us'd on me, made that Contract voyd.
1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 41. 265 She immediately made void certain Grants she had made.
1774 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. App., in Wks. (1859) I. 130 The true ground on which we declare these acts void, is, that the British Parliament has no right to exercise authority over us.
1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. 46 All statutes which they deemed void, contradictory, or superfluous.
1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 2) xiv. 202 The Parliament declared that the same marriage had from the beginning been void.
1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xviii. 35 The election was declared void, and a new writ was issued.
b. In general use: null, invalid.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [adjective] > rendered void
irrite1482
frustrate1497
void1526
irritate1600
null and void1651
annihilatory1676
non inventus1678
invalid1768
non avenu1787
non est1858
negated1876
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adjective] > ineffective > without force or cogency
over-feeble?c1225
void1526
unforcible1597
strengthlessa1603
invalidous1611
invalid1643
evanid1646
non est1858
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Biiiiv Cerimonyes..whiche all were euacuat and made voyde by the passion of our sauiour Iesu Christ.
1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory Prol. sig. A.ij That repentaunce that he had before shuld be but voyde.
1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. B3 Of this Argument, both the Proposition and Assumption are false, and so the Conclusion cannot but be voyd of it selfe.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) 99 This makes void that common conceit and tradition of the Fish called Faber marinus.
1746 E. Hoyle Quadrille in Games 36 If there happen to be two Cards of the same sort, and found out before the Deal is ended, the Deal is void, but not otherwise.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. 225 The cast is void if the ball does not enter any of the holes.
1812 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Paradiso iii. 57 Our vows Were, in some part, neglected and made void.
8. † b. Vacant in respect of office; marked by a vacancy or interregnum. Obsolete.† c. Of persons: unemployed. In quot. c1450 figurative.
a. Of time: free from work or occupation; unemployed, idle, leisure. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > [adjective] > free (of time)
unoccupied?a1439
avoid1488
void1530
vacant1531
remiss1566
spared1580
nugifrivolous1589
sparea1610
leisure1669
the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [adjective]
idlec950
tooma1340
unoccupiedc1405
void1530
restyc1540
unbusied1570
idlefula1652
haking1703
unbusy1731
otiose1850
non-employed1853
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) i. 23 Therfore though..a lesson be red but of one alone, yet thinke not that that is a voyde tyme to all the other to do what they wyll.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 107 To have a commyn place appoyntyd..wherin they myght at voyd tymys exercyse themselfys.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Hviii All the voide time, that is betwene the huores of woorke slepe and meate.
1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Heautontimoroumenos i. i, in Terence in Eng. 199 Haue you so much leisure and voide time from your owne priuate affaires, that [etc.].
a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman iii. i. 139 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) I'll claim him in my study, that a void hours I may run o'r the story of his Country.
1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xxv. 206 That void interval which passes for him so slowly..teems with events, and pants with hurry for his friends.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > [adjective] > vacant (of an office) > marked by vacancy
void1480
1480–1 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 316 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 They that be chosen ballyffs one yere, shal not be chosen..without they have one yere voied betuxt.
1496–7 Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 324 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 The eldest that have borne the office of Mairaltie shall have the same voide day, if he have noo daye before.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. ii. 94 That Valens and Cæcina might obtaine some voide moneths that yeare to be Consuls in.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. vi. §8. 329 There can be no void years found betweene Iosua and Othoniel.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xxii. §11. 558 Yet some coniectures there are made, which tend to keepe all euen, without acknowledging any voide time.
ΚΠ
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. lix. 137 Nature loueþ idelnes,..but grace can not be voide ner idel, but gladly takiþ upon him labour & traueile.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > absence > [adjective] > absent, lost, or lacking
absenta1398
wanting?a1425
lacking1480
alacka1529
void1554
defaulting1584
lacked1590
lack1591
destituent1660
unaccounted1799
truant1869
1554–9 in T. Wright Songs & Ballads Philip & Mary (1860) (Roxb.) 4 In Chryst all fullness of power and myght dothe dwell; In hyme voyd was nothyng that was nydfull and fytt.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [adjective] > incapable of doing something
unablec1380
void1578
uncapable1600
incapablea1616
destitute1645
1578 O. Roydon in T. Proctor Gorgious Gallery A ij b But Sicophantes will neuer cease to swell Though (learnedly) themselues be voyde to write.
11. Cards. Of a hand: having no cards in a given suit.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [adjective] > type of hand or suit
strong1626
high1742
lay-down1906
biddable1926
void1934
1934 F. D. Courtenay System Experts Play (ed. 3) 17 A void suit at a trump declaration is equivalent to an A.
1958 Listener 6 Nov. 753/3 One never lives to enjoy the double, for either dummy or partner will be void and will remove the double.
1972 R. Markus Aces & Places 25 When West showed void he went into a huddle.
1980 [see sense B. 8]. II. Const. of (occasionally †from).
12. † c. Clear or quit of (a person); vacant in respect of. Obsolete.
a. Devoid of, free from, not tainted with (some bad quality, fault, or defect).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > a quality > some fault or defect
voidc1374
sure?1440
c1374 G. Chaucer Former Age 50 The lambish peple, voyd of alle vyce.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 167 Thus thise foweles, voide of al malice..songe alle of oon acorde.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 11 And Musik had, voyde of alle discord, Boece her clerk, withe hevenly armony.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 6 A Ryoll king..herd off Wallace gouernance..and off his prewyt prys, Off honour, trewth, and woid off cowatis.
a1529 J. Skelton Pithy Pleasaunt & Profitable Wks. (1568) sig. Aaiij.v Yet is she fayne Uoyde of disdayn Me to retayne Her seruiture.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxxxjv They oughte to be free and voyde from anger.
1595 W. S. Lamentable Trag. Locrine ii. ii. 3 We Coblers lead a merie life:..Void of all enuie and of strife.
1605 W. Alexander Alexandræan Trag. iv. i All love a courteous count'nance, voyd of Art.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 75 The said point could not be thought void of that cunning, wherein the writer excelled.
1718 Free-thinker No. 67. 2 Let your Deliberations be void of Animosities.
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 260 Our code void of quirks in a Blackstone is seen.
1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass xi. 253 A piece of flint glass,..by no means void of imperfections.
1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. i. 2 Sir Joseph..was a man void of mystery, and not given to secrets.
b. Free from, untouched by, not affected or impaired by (something unpleasant or hurtful).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > something unpleasant
voidc1420
immune?1440
c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 809 On a camell rydyng, as voyde of all care.
1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Biv A lyfe voyde of all sorow & encombraunce.
c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 81 So yt neuer any of them had euer in their liues knowen or herd, either themself or any other voyd of those disseases.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cj A place myght be assigned for the counsell, voyde of all daunger and suspicion.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lix. 35 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 64 They prate and bable voide of feare.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 350 Some would haue him kept in a close, darke and quiet house, voyde from all noise.
1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions iv. 6 Never clogging the memory with several figures for words..which with ease and void of confusion, are thus speedily..letter for letter set down.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 66 Next Day, nor only that, but all the Moon,..Are void of Tempests. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 91 My next Desire is, void of Care and Strife, To lead a soft, secure, inglorious Life. View more context for this quotation
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. xxviii. 328 I, sanguine in my hopes, had expressed myself as void of all doubt but you would become a Catholic.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 325 Eachin alone had left it [sc. the battle-ground] void of wounds.
1878 M. A. Brown tr. J. L. Runeberg Nadeschda iii. 37 And void of fear..She goes to Woldmar.
ΚΠ
1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xlviijv Nowe nothinge was contrariant..to his pernicious purpose, but that his mancion was not voide of his wife.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxciijv In the countrey round about were forces of Sparnyardes and Italians. Of whome to be voyde and free, they..payde thirty thousand..crownes.
1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 188 The Parliament..declared the Throne void of Edward the Fourth, and Henry the Sixth King.
13.
a. Destitute of, not graced or ennobled by (some virtue or good quality).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > a quality > good
voidc1400
c1400 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) iv. xxix. 62 Thou arte veyne, and voyde of al maner of vertue.
1467 Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 56 Ye poope holy prestis full of presomcion,..voyd of discrecion.
a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 202 I se the haltane in thy harlotrie..Off every vertew woyd.
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Fijv The inhabitantes are..vtterly voyde of all godly knowledge.
1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. bjv O vnthankefull Englande and voyde of honest shame.
1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons Ded. 3 They haue been so voide of the orders and exercises of war of their forefathers.
a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) iii. i. 37 O thou most perfidious That ever gently lookd the voydes of honour. That eu'r bore gentle Token. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1074 Bad Fruit of Knowledge,..Which leaves us naked thus, of Honour void . View more context for this quotation
1686 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 410 I am not so void of reson at this age bot that I can refran from duing myself and family any damag by play.
1706 R. Estcourt Fair Example v. i Beauty, tho' void of Virtue, has the Power To make as well the Wise as Fools adore.
1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 136 But Hunger is void of all Compassion.
1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. vi. iv. 252 She was totally void of judgment or discretion.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. viii. 660 Whom he represents as too void of character, to write any thing of himself.
1831 J. Mackintosh Hist. Eng. II. 44 He was as void of manly as of kingly virtues.
1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 2) xiv. 206 A person void of capacity, without any experience.
b. Destitute or deprived of, lacking or wanting (something desirable or natural).The groups of quotations illustrate different types of context.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > lacking or without
wane971
quit?c1225
helpless1362
desolatec1386
wantsomea1400
ungirtc1412
voidc1420
wantinga1475
destitutea1500
unfurnished1541
defect1543
bankrupt1567
frustrate1576
wanting1580
wanting1592
sterile1642
minus1807
lacking1838
to be stuck up for1860
short1873
wanting1874
quits1885
light1936
(a)
(b)a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 240 Ryghtful houre of ettynge is, whan the stomake is purchet and clenset, and voyde of the mette.1563 B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. B.v Thy face good Agon [is] voide of blud thine eies amased stare.1581 W. Fulke in A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion (1584) iii. sig. O iij b Nay, hee saith plainely, they are not Expertes corporis, voyde of body.1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 67 If matter it selfe be in it selfe void of measure, it is necessary that it receive measure from some superiour.1728 T. Sheridan tr. Persius Satyrs (1739) v. 68 A white Shield void of any Figures in it.1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 378 This water, when newly melted, is totally void both of air, and of the aerial acid.1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 489 It is colourless and void of smell, but intensely saline and bitter.1829 Chapters Physical Sci. 124 Leaving 1727 cubic inches void of any material substance.1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany 237 The surface of the water was perfectly void of any ripple.(c)?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 339 Philippus, kynge of Macedony, scholde destroye sone the cite if that hit were vacuate and voide of discrete men.a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. viii To espye when he were voyde of his company, & then to take hym.a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Passioun in Poems (1998) I. 37 Methocht Compassioun, vode of feiris, Than straik at me with mony ane stound.1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. viii. 298 He marched through wilde and desert places voide of inhabitants.1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 505 The Inhabitants being left void of a Gouernour, or solid Patrone.(d)1513 Life Henry V (1911) 126 Whereby the Englishmen, voide of there requests, returned to there lodges.1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa iii. i. 240 He was depos'd, and declar'd void of the Papacy.c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 1382 Came thedyr Attropos, voyde of all gladness, Wrappyd in hys shete.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. 298 Þai war vode of all gude esperance.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 33 Woide of all joy, but full of painfulnes.
1592 T. Tymme Plaine Discouerie Ten Eng. Lepers K iij They find that they are utterly void of all helpe.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. 82 Voyd of all delight, cold, barren, bleake, and dry.
1668 J. Child Brief Observ. Trade 9 The people poor, despicable, and void of Commerce.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 142 He took his way, thro' Forrests void of Light. View more context for this quotation
1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §90. 103 It wou'd not at first view be altogether void of Probability.
1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Seventh 32 Life void of Joy, Sad Prelude of Eternity in Pain!
1812 G. Crabbe Tales ii. 38 By various shores he pass'd, on various seas, Never so happy as when void of ease.
1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 309 The records of endurance and martyrdom for conscience sake, can never be void of interest.
B. n.1figurative.1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 471 It leaves the feeling of void and forsakenness.
1. † a. One who is devoid of something. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > non-possession > [noun] > state of being devoid of something > one who is devoid of something
void1614
1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue iv. 186 Their immodest flame Fires none but Fools, Frantiks, or Voids of shame.
b. A state or condition devoid of something; a lack or want. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > non-possession > [noun] > state of being devoid of something
voidness1534
freeness1581
void1786
1786 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 76 274 On account of the impossibility of making a perfect void of air by means of the pump.
1788 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) VI. 352 Men in whom pride..supplies the void of sense.
1789 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 559 Nor has the society he has kept been such as to supply the void of education.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 273 Space is the void of outward objects.
2. Emptiness, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > [noun] > absolute emptiness of space
vaina1382
emptiness1533
empty1535
vacuity1546
vacuum1550
vacancy1603
voida1618
inanea1676
a1618 Sylvester Trag. Henry the Great 602 Who, from the Ocean, Motion can recall, Heat from Fire, Void from Air, Order from All.
1781 C. Lofft Eudosia vi. 349 In perfect void, the medium lost,..All substances with like velocity Descend.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. i. v. 83 Naught shalt thou see in endless Void afar.
1878 B. Stewart & P. G. Tait Unseen Universe iv. §121. 133 But there is also void in things, else they would be jammed together.
3. figurative.1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 243 On superior Pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours: Or in the full Creation leave a Void.1868 Ld. Tennyson Lucretius 37 It seem'd A void was made in Nature; all her bonds Crack'd.(a)1947 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining & Metall. Engineers 171 136/2 Supposedly these voids do not equal in volume the sum of lattice-volume change plus the direct zinc transfer.1952 Proc. Physical Soc. B. 65 522 It remains now to discuss the generation and removal from the lattice of the large number of vacancies which do not form voids.1965 J.-I. Takamura in R. W. Cahn Physical Metallurgy xiv. 722 In these crystals voids are formed at grain boundaries as a result of large amount of strain.1974 Physics Bull. Dec. 582/3 A nice illustration..was the discovery by Evans of the void lattice in molybdenum, voids of a few tens of Å in radius being ordered on a lattice with a spacing of one or two hundred Å.(b)1964 Wert & Thomson Physics of Solids ii. 32 The fcc structure has small voids (called interstices) between the atoms.1982 J. V. Smith Geom. & Struct. Crystal v. 145 (caption) Tetrahedral and octahedral voids in (a) cubic closest-packing and (b) hexagonal closest-packing.
a. Architecture. A space left in a wall for a window, or door; the opening of an arch; any unfilled space in a building or structure.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > unfilled space in building
void1616
well hole1663
well1858
1616 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 341 The said Thomas..sall build ane voyd hard be the said passage for letting doun the paissis frome the knock.
1723 E. Chambers tr. S. Le Clerc Treat. Archit. I. 138 Massive is found over Massive, and Void under Void.
1742 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 3) II. 120 The Thickness of each Pier is not one Third Part of the Void of each Arch.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 163 A very loose mode of..measuring voids, as the openings of doors and windows are termed.
1889 J. J. Hissey Tour in Phaeton 124 The windows are both prominent and graceful features in the building, not merely glazed voids.
b. An empty or vacant space; an unoccupied place or opening in something or between things; a vacancy caused by the removal of something.Examples of the singular with the (cf. sense A. 4) are placed under (a). The use is often figurative, esp. in the phrase to fill the void.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > an unoccupied space
vacuity?1541
vacuum1589
blanka1616
gapa1616
vacancy1652
space1654
evacuity1655
void1697
chasm1759
lacuna1872
null1887
(a)
(b)1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1710) ii. i. ii. 353 There is..a Void within for the Soldiers Lodgings.1712 R. Blackmore Creation ii. 84 The Stars..At a vast Distance from each other lye, Sever'd by spacious Voids of liquid Sky.1822 Ld. Byron Heaven & Earth i. iii, in Liberal 1 185 Without him, even Eternity would be A void.1849 J. C. Hare Serm. Preacht Herstmonceux Church II. 469 We learn that the courts of heaven are not a bare void, but that..innumerable beings are there.1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 932 If..a severe frost..destroys half the plants..the voids are again filled up by the dispersion of the seeds.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 517 From the forbidden Space his Men retir'd... He said, and to the void advanc'd his Pace.
1737 S. Berington Mem. G. di Lucca 170 In the middle of this Concave is a golden Sun, hanging in the Void.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 209 All the tricks That idleness has ever yet contriv'd To fill the void of an unfurnish'd brain.
1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh 210 A wide, deep, and wizard glen, So fathomless, so full of gloom, No eye could pierce the void between.
1861 H. S. Maine Anc. Law iv. 99 The mind of a Roman lawyer..would instantly fill the void with the ordinances of Nature.
c. spec. An absolutely empty space; a vacuum.
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the world > space > [noun] > absolute emptiness of space > an absolutely empty space
vacuum1607
vacant1712
void?1720
?1720 Wonderful Wonder 3 He is an Atomick Philosopher, strongly maintaining a Voyd in Nature.
1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers ii. xix. 262 It [sc. space] is only an immense, eternal, immoveable, and indestructible void or emptiness.
1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (1849) xiv. 123 It is utterly incomprehensible that the celestial bodies should exert a reciprocal attraction through a void.
1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 43 Whether there was or was not a void, or place without matter, had already been debated among rival sects of philosophers.
1905 Times 31 Aug. 7/4 Does not..the Democritean void..again emerge?
d. One of the small unoccupied spaces in a heap or mass which is not perfectly solid; spec. (a) a defect in a crystal lattice consisting of a space larger than a single vacancy; (b) an interatomic space in any crystal lattice.
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the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > crystal lattice > [noun] > interatomic space
void1837
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > an unoccupied space > in a heap or mass
void1837
the world > matter > chemistry > crystallography (general) > crystal (general) > crystal irregularities > [noun] > lattice defects > void
void1837
1837 J. T. Smith tr. L. J. Vicat Pract. & Sci. Treat. Mortars & Cements 87 It is then easy to judge by the quantity of water used, what proportion the voids bear to the whole bulk of the sand.
1868 Ld. Tennyson Lucretius 254 The very sides of the grave itself shall pass, Vanishing, atom and void, atom and void, Into the unseen for ever.
1884 Cent. Mag. 29 48 How large we could determine by filling its voids with water and measuring its quantity.
1900 Engin. Mag. 19 774/1 Strength of Concrete with Different Per Cent. of Voids Filled.
4. figurative.1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 14 Pride, where Wit fails,..fills up all the mighty Void of Sense.1746 W. Dunkin tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. ii. 43 Mere Outside all, to fill the mighty Void Of Life, in Dress and Equipage employ'd.1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 2 To lose ourselves in the infinite void of the conjectural world.1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm iv. 84 The dark void of infidelity.1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 41 To fill up the great void of life with giving small orders to tenants.
a. spec. With the: The empty expanse of space.
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the world > the universe > space > [noun]
heavensOE
heavenOE
space1561
space1582
ether1587
the deep1598
depth1613
void1667
empyrean1879
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 829 With lonely steps to tread Th' unfounded deep, & through the void immense To search with wandring quest a place foretold. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals vi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 28 He sung..How Seas, and Earth, and Air, and active Flame, Fell through the mighty Void.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 607 Prone thro' the Void the Rocky Ruine shoots.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 229 This rich variety of Creatures, that fill the Void, in which the Earth in the Beginning was said to be.
1774 J. Beattie Minstrel: 2nd Bk. xxiii. 12 For now no cloud obscures the starry void.
1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Liberty i, in Prometheus Unbound 208 The ray Of the remotest sphere of living flame Which paves the void was from behind it flung.
1854 D. Brewster More Worlds x. 163 The immense void which lies between our system and the nearest system of the stars.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. iv. 78 The scattered Fragments into the Void we carry.
b. Const. of (heaven, etc.).
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1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 438 The void profound Of unessential Night receives him next Wide gaping. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 50 In the Void of Heav'n a Space is free, Betwixt the Scorpion and the Maid for thee. View more context for this quotation
1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. i. iii. 38 Thus did the venturous Cretan dare To tempt with impious wings the void of air.
1744 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons (new ed.) 216 If Nature's boundless Frame Was call'd, late-rising from the Void of Night, Or sprung eternal from th' Eternal Mind.
5. figurative.
a. An unsatisfied feeling or desire.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > uneasy or restless desire > [noun] > vain or unsatisfied desire
void1779
1779 W. Cowper Hymns i They have left an aching void, The world can never fill.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xiii. 20 Tears..Which weep a loss for ever new, A void where heart on heart reposed.
1899 A. Conan Doyle Duet (1909) 15/1 You talk about my happiness before I met you,..but what a void there was!
b. A blank in a record.
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society > communication > record > [noun] > a record > blank in
void1866
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices Introd. They are an attempt to satisfy a total void.
1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1875) III. xiv. 329 A void is left which history cannot fill.
6. A period during which a house or farm is unoccupied or unlet. (Cf. A. 2c.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > non-possession > fact of not being possessed or owned > [noun] > fact of being unoccupied > period of
void1885
1885 Daily News 23 Jan. 3/3 For some years it went reasonably well; but with frequent voids and losses of rent.
1905 Daily News 20 Feb. 3 The [income tax] authorities would only allow ‘voids’ or ‘empties’ within the financial year in which they occurred.
7. In the game of skat: The seven, eight, or nine, which have no value in counting.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > skat > score or bid
grand?1872
schneider1880
schwartz1880
void1891
schneid1946
1891 Diehl Skat 58 By leading the void of the plain suit, you will very likely be enabled to make two tricks in that suit.
8. Cards. The absence of any cards in a particular suit in a player's holding.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > hand > types of hand
flusha1529
renounce1830
lay-down1839
no-trumper1899
chicane1900
pianola hand1913
powerhouse1932
void1933
pianola1974
1933 C. Vandyck Contract Contracted ii. 20 The Short Suits are the Doubletons, Singletons and Voids.
1944 Times 17 May 6/3 Provision was made for revaluation after the first round of bidding to count three points for a void.
1980 M. Dummett Twelve Tarock Games vii. 125 Singleton Kings are usually even better than voids, unless..there is a danger that one of the opponents is void in [that suit].
9. Medicine. An emptying of the bladder.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > [noun] > urination
pissinga1398
urine1561
urination1599
staling1601
miction1663
urining1668
piss?1837
piddle1870
micturating1879
pee1880
pee-wee1909
wet1925
peeing1929
leak1934
Jimmy Riddle1937
wee-wee1937
tinkle1939
run-off1944
slash1950
No. 11965
wee1968
widdle1969
gypsy's kiss1971
Jimmy1971
whizz1971
gypsy's1972
void1980
wazz1994
1980 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Mar. 889/2 Residual urine was estimated..by catheterisation after a normal void.
Derivatives
ˈvoidward adv. (rare).
ΚΠ
1927 J. Joyce Nightpiece in Pomes Penyeach As the bleak incense surges, cloud on cloud, voidward from the adoring Waste of souls.
Draft additions June 2007
void deck n. South-East Asian the ground floor of a block of flats, which is left vacant, typically to be hired out for communal activities.
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1980 Tung Syn Neo in P. Hodge Community Probl. & Socal Work in Southeast Asia xxiii. 234 Even void decks may not be popular with parents since here again they are unable to see their children at play.
2004 G. Lim Invisible Trade i. 33 A Malay wedding in an HDB void deck!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
voidv.
/vɔɪd/, U.S. /vɔɪd/ I. To make void or empty.
1. † c. To bereave or deprive of life. Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To clear (a room, house, place) of occupants; to empty or clear (a place, receptacle, etc.) of something. †Also const. from. Now archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)] > empty > empty of (something)
void13..
empty1526
dischargec1530
exhaust1614
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel > specific people from a place, position, or possession
outshoveOE
to do out of ——OE
shovec1200
to put out of ——c1225
to cast out1297
void13..
usurpa1325
to put outa1350
outputa1382
outrayc1390
excludea1400
expulse?a1475
expel1490
to shut forth1513
to put forth1526
to turn out1546
depel?1548
disseisin1548
evict1548
exturb1603
debout1619
wincha1626
disseise1627
out-pusha1631
howster1642
oust1656
out1823
purge1825
the bum's rush1910
outplace1928
13.. K. Alis. 373 (Linc.) He voidud þeo chaumbre of many vchon.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3131 By þat wern þe feldes alle of þe Sarsyns y-vewdid wel.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Hypermnestra. 2625 Whan that the house voyded was of alle.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 1951 Þere was no thing, þat eny man myȝte se,..For hanybald had do void it [sc. his house], of al thing þat was there.
?1482 J. Kay tr. G. Caoursin Siege of Rhodes Anon with grete dylygence they voyded theire shyppes of the men of werre and of their ordonnances.
15.. Aberdeen Reg. (Jam.) To woud the said biging of the gudis.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 232 Penny royal..clenseth the Lunges, and voydeth them and the breast from all grosse and thicke humors.
1654 T. Fuller Triana 81 Bondi..causeth the room to be voided of all company.
1786 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 76 280 The cavity of the cylinder and globe containing the thermometer was completely voided of air with mercury.
1861 J. C. H. Fane & Ld. Lytton Tannhäuser 73 And, voided now Of all his multitudes, the mighty Hall..laid bare His ghostly galleries to the mournful moon.
b. To rid, to make free or clear, of (or †from) some quality or condition.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)] > clear out > specifically of immaterial things
void1338
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 247 Þe barons alle said,..Þe lond þei wild voide of þat herisie.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 26 Þai suld weill hawe prys þat..war woydyt off cowardy.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. BBviiv Except it be fyrst voyded from all..elacion, pride, and contradiccion.
1545 Primer Kynges Maiestie (STC 16034) sig. A.ii That our hertes be voyded quyte From phansy and fond delighte.
a1577 G. Gascoigne Princelie Pleasures Kenelworth sig. A.iij, in Whole Wks. (1587) Your thrice comming here doth bode thrise happy hope, and voides the place from feare.
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 74 The Parliament shall void her Upper House of the same annoyances.
1668 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous Disc. (1825) 273 Having voided thy mind of what is earthly and carnal.
1861 A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedral of 19th Cent. i. 2 It is neither possible nor desireable so wholly to void either nature of the presence of the other.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)]
swevec725
quelmeOE
slayc893
quelleOE
of-falleOE
ofslayeOE
aquellc950
ayeteeOE
spillc950
beliveOE
to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE
fordoa1000
forfarea1000
asweveOE
drepeOE
forleseOE
martyrOE
to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE
bringc1175
off-quellc1175
quenchc1175
forswelta1225
adeadc1225
to bring of daysc1225
to do to deathc1225
to draw (a person) to deathc1225
murder?c1225
aslayc1275
forferec1275
to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275
martyrc1300
strangle1303
destroya1325
misdoa1325
killc1330
tailc1330
to take the life of (also fro)c1330
enda1340
to kill to (into, unto) death1362
brittena1375
deadc1374
to ding to deathc1380
mortifya1382
perisha1387
to dight to death1393
colea1400
fella1400
kill out (away, down, up)a1400
to slay up or downa1400
swelta1400
voida1400
deliverc1400
starvec1425
jugylc1440
morta1450
to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480
to put offc1485
to-slaya1500
to make away with1502
to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503
rida1513
to put downa1525
to hang out of the way1528
dispatch?1529
strikea1535
occidea1538
to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540
to fling to deathc1540
extinct1548
to make out of the way1551
to fet offa1556
to cut offc1565
to make away?1566
occise1575
spoil1578
senda1586
to put away1588
exanimate1593
unmortalize1593
speed1594
unlive1594
execute1597
dislive1598
extinguish1598
to lay along1599
to make hence1605
conclude1606
kill off1607
disanimate1609
feeze1609
to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611
to kill dead1615
transporta1616
spatch1616
to take off1619
mactate1623
to make meat of1632
to turn up1642
inanimate1647
pop1649
enecate1657
cadaverate1658
expedite1678
to make dog's meat of1679
to make mincemeat of1709
sluice1749
finisha1753
royna1770
still1778
do1780
deaden1807
deathifyc1810
to lay out1829
cool1833
to use up1833
puckeroo1840
to rub out1840
cadaverize1841
to put under the sod1847
suicide1852
outkill1860
to fix1875
to put under1879
corpse1884
stiffen1888
tip1891
to do away with1899
to take out1900
stretch1902
red-light1906
huff1919
to knock rotten1919
skittle1919
liquidate1924
clip1927
to set over1931
creasea1935
ice1941
lose1942
to put to sleep1942
zap1942
hit1955
to take down1967
wax1968
trash1973
ace1975
a1400–50 Alexander 3980 If I be vencust in þe vaile & voidid of my lyfe, Lat all my seggis & soile be to þi-selfe ȝolden.
2. Without const.† a. To clear (a table) of dishes, remains of food, etc. after a meal. Obsolete.figurative.1638 F. Quarles Hieroglyphikes xiii. 51 Time voyds the Table: Dinner's done.† c. To make void or empty; to clear or empty (some thing or place) of its contents or occupants. Obsolete.† e. To exhaust (a subject) by discussion or exposition; to deal with exhaustively or thoroughly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > serving food > removal of dishes > [verb (transitive)]
voida1400
unlay1457
rid1599
disserve1816
bus1930
a1400 Sqr. lowe Degre 468 Full lowe he set hym on his kne, And voyded his borde full gentely.
1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.ivv Now this feest is done voyde ye the table.
1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. iv. xxi. 89 The Trayne and table voyded, then he..Directs her by his tongue and teares, vnto his louing harte.
1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia iii. 118 The board was voided, and the Sewer Had now resignd his office with the Ewer.
1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 119 Dinner was done, and the Table voided.
b. To evacuate (the stomach); to clear or blow (the nose); to clean out (slaughtered animals). Also reflexive. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excrete [verb (transitive)] > empty bodily organ
voida1425
evacuate1542
exonerate1542
ush1887
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (transitive)] > vomit
spew971
aspewc1200
to gulch out?c1225
casta1300
vomea1382
brake1393
evacuec1400
to cast outa1425
deliver?a1425
voida1425
evomec1450
evomit?a1475
disgorge1477
to cast up1483
degorge1493
vomish1536
retch1538
parbreak1540
reject1540
vomit1541
evacuate1542
revomit1545
belch1558
vomit1560
to lay up1570
upvomit1582
to fetch up1599
puke1601
respew1606
inbelch1610
spew1610
to throw up1614
exgurgitate1623
out-spew1647
egurgitate1656
to throw off1660
to bring up1719
pick1828
sick1924
yark1927
barf1960
to park the tiger1970
vom1991
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > dress animals for food [verb (transitive)] > disembowel or clean
scour1412
void1535
scald1565
paunch1570
hulk1622
viscerate1727
porge1773
clean1841
gralloch1848
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretion of mucus > excrete mucus [verb (transitive)] > clear nose
snitec1305
snuff1561
snot1576
void1594
snurt1600
snuff1648
snivel1835
snort1835
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) vi And whan þei be ful or seeke, þei fedeth hem with gras, as an hounde doth, forto voyed hem.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 240 To kepe kynde hete, and to voyde the stomake, good is hit afor mette sumwhate to walke or ryde.
1535 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 133 The bochers..shall voyd and kyll noe moe ware in the sayd howses.
1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course iv. f. 49 They would neither..spit, nor void their noses into the riuers, but reuerenced them aboue all things.
1876 Fur, Fin & Feather Sept. 167 They [sc. squirrels] should be voided..and kept several days in cold weather.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)] > empty
emptyOE
emptOE
avoida1382
to shake out1382
devoida1400
evacuec1400
void1506
toom?a1513
unburden1538
disgarboil1567
inanitea1598
unbowel1597
unfill1607
to turn out?1609
unteemc1635
evacuatea1652
vacuate1651
unempt1798
disglut1800
eviscerate1834
1506 in Memorials Hen. VII (1858) 288 A little before..my lord Herberd voided all the King's chamber except lords and officers..which remained there still.
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 2 The chamber being voyded, he brake with him in these tearmes.
a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1616) sig. E2 Good Fredericke see the roomes by voyded straight, His Maiesty is comming to the Hall.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vii. v. 252 So the roume being voided, and all commaunded to depart farre ynough out of the way, he draweth out his skeine.
1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 4 Thus when your trench is voyded and emptied to the depth which you desire, you shall cast in long dung.
d. To render (a benefice) vacant; to vacate. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > benefice > [verb (transitive)] > render benefice vacant
void1660
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 217 in Justice Vindicated When any Archbishoprick or Bishoprick shall be voided.
1677 W. Mountagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 327 His living..being voided by his own act, though it would have been otherwise if voided by death.
a1703 Bp. Kidder in Cassan Bps. Bath & Wells ii. (1830) 126 After I had entered upon this living, and thereby voided that in Essex.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > take care about [verb (transitive)] > do thoroughly > deal with exhaustively
void1659
to cover all the bases1976
1659 H. Thorndike Epil. Trag. Church of Eng. i. xx. 155 Not to insist here, what the respective interests of publick and private persons in the Church are and ought to be, because it is a point that cannot here be voided.
1687 G. Towerson Baptism 273 A question which will best be voided by considering the force of those Arguments, which the condemners..have produc'd.
3. † c. To confute or refute. Obsolete.
a. To deprive (something) of legal validity; to make legally void or invalid; to annul or cancel.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > rule of law > illegality > render illegal [verb (transitive)] > deprive of legal validity
abatea1325
squatcha1325
voida1325
allayc1325
annul1395
reverse1395
revokec1400
rupt?a1425
repealc1425
abroge1427
defeat1429
purloin1461
cassa1464
toll1467
resume1472
reprove1479
suspend1488
discharge1495
reduce1498
cassate1512
defease1512
denulla1513
disannula1513
fordoa1513
avoid1514–5
abrogate?1520
frustrate1528
revert1528
disaffirm?1530
extinct1530
resolve1537
null1538
nihilate1545
extinguish1548
elidec1554
revocate1564
annullate1570
squat1577
skaila1583
irritate1605
retex1606
nullify1607
unable1611
refix1621
vitiate1627
invalid1643
vacate1643
unlaw1644
outlaw1647
invalidate1649
disenact1651
vacuate1654
supersedec1674
destroy1805
break1891
a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xii. 65 Þe parties of þulke fins..ope suuche fins to voiden ant for te anenden weren isuffred.
a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xii. 65 On suuche manere þe fins..ofte siþes bez ivoided.
1487 Rolls of Parl. VI. 394/1 That..it be lefull to the said Roger..to enter,..and enjoye all that comprised in the same Lettres Patentes so voided.
1535 T. Cromwell in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) VII. 586 [To] desire the Bisshop..to revoke and denounce voyd and frustrate the injust and slaunderous sentence.
1641 H. Thorndike Of Govt. Churches 132 In some cases they void excommunication that is grounded upon particular interesse.
1643 D. Digges Unlawfulnesse Subj. iv. 147 His obstinate refusall voides the Parliament.
1692 J. Locke Some Considerations Lowering Interest 12 Unless you intend to..void Bargains lawfully made.
1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting II. ii. 48 A contract voided by the death of the Prince.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. viii. 98 The giving meat and drink, exceeding £5 in value, to electors, shall void an election.
1883 Church Times 9 Nov. 812/4 On the principles of Roman Canon law, the Papal succession has been voided many times over.
b. To deprive of efficacy, force, or value; to render inoperative or meaningless; to set aside or nullify. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > annul, cancel, revoke [verb (transitive)] > make void or invalid
wanea889
voida1340
avoidc1375
abolishc1475
disnull1509
disannula1513
annihilate1525
evacuate1526
aniente1528
extinct1530
disable1548
extinguish1548
solute1550
destitutea1563
exinanitea1575
cashier1596
devoid1601
shorta1616
supersede1618
vitiate1627
invalidate1649
out1653
vacate1662
exinanitiate1698
atheticize1701
squasha1777
invalid1827
negate1837
negative1837
unsanction1854
cancel-
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail to [verb (transitive)] > have no effect upon > render ineffectual
voida1340
mortifyc1390
to lay in water?c1425
frustrate1471
stint1509
mutilatec1570
dead1602
unvirtuate1611
ineffectuate1633
nonplus1640
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cvi[i]. 11 Þe counsaile of þe heghest þai voidyd [L. irritaverunt].
1396–7 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1907) XXII. 304 For þou þese to [= two] craftis nemlid were michil more nedful in þe elde lawe, þe newe testament hath voydid þese and manie othere.
?1462 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 100 That th' effect of the old purpose of the seid Ser John Fastolff shuld not be all voyded.
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) cxxiiii. 167 Yf one begynne to..talke with yow of suche mater, lete hym alone..And thus ye shalle voyde and breke his talkynge.
1513 Life Henry V (1911) 20 By whose departure the intent of this victorious Kinge was vtterly empesshed and voyded in that Cause.
1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. i. xiii. f. liiii By the markynge of thys one poynt, ye may voyde almoste all the crafte, wyth whiche mayster..Fryth and Tyndale..labour to deceyue you.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxii. 144 Baptisme..is by a fourth sort of men voided for the onely defect of ecclesiasticall authoritie in the Minister.
1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. iii. 81 Now tell me if thy adversary Sue thee, and thou art like to be orerthrown For want of witnesses, how wilt thou 'void His suit?
1675 O. Walker Paraphr. Epist. St. Paul 3 The former religion of the Law..voided and annulled by that farr more preeminent of Christ.
a1688 W. Clagett Seventeen Serm. (1699) 197 They voided the commandments of God, and made his word of none effect.
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 27 O how is Man enlarg'd Seen thro' this Medium [i.e. Redemption]?..How voided his vast Distance from the Skies?
1874 S. Cox Pilgrim Psalms iv. 83 We defeat our own hope and void our own prayer.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > refute, disprove [verb (transitive)]
answerOE
bitavelena1225
allayc1275
confoundc1384
concludea1400
conclusea1400
forblenda1400
gainsaya1400
rejag1402
to bear downc1405
redarguea1425
repugn?a1425
reverse?c1430
improvec1443
reprovea1513
dissolve1529
revince1529
convince1530
confute1533
refel1534
refute1545
void1570
evict1583
infringe1590
reprehend1597
revert1598
evince1608
repel1613
to take off1618
unbubblea1640
invalid1643
invalidate1649
remove1652
retund1653
effronta1657
dispute1659
unreason1661
have1680
demolish1691
to blow sky-high1819
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 926/1 With these and such other like reasons, the Gray Franciscans voyded their aduersaries.
1630 M. Godwin tr. F. Godwin Ann. Eng. iii. 312 He by such witty answers voided the accusation of his Adversary, that the Iurors found him not guilty.
1645 J. Milton Colasterion 19 After waiting and voiding, hee thinks to void my second Argument.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 479 His Design was..To account for the Low Sicilian Talent, and to void all that Mr. B. had written about it before.
II. To dismiss, depart from, vacate; to evacuate, discharge.† 4. † b. With double object. Obsolete.† c. To dismiss or remove from a situation or position. Obsolete.† d. reflexive. To remove or withdraw (oneself) from or out of a place. Obsolete.† 5. † b. To dismount from (a horse). Obsolete.† c. To cover, move over (ground) in progression. Obsolete. rare.† 8. † b. To empty out (water, etc.) from a vessel.† c. Of a river or stream. Also reflexive and absol., to discharge into the sea or another river. Obsolete.† 9. To make by excavation; to cut or hollow out (a hole, etc.). Obsolete.
a.
(a) To send or put (a person) away; to cause or compel to go away from or leave a place; to dismiss or expel. Obsolete.Frequently const. out of, also more rarely from or of the place.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away
feezec890
adriveeOE
aflemeeOE
off-driveeOE
flemeOE
withdrivec1000
adreveOE
to drive outOE
biwevea1300
chasec1300
void13..
catcha1325
firk1340
enchasec1380
huntc1385
to catch awayc1390
forcatch1393
to put offa1398
to cast awaya1400
to put outc1400
repel?a1439
exterminate1541
chasten1548
propulse1548
keir1562
hie1563
depulse1570
band1580
bandy1591
flit1595
ferret1601
profugate1603
extermine1634
13.. Gosp. Nicodemus (A.) 285 Pilate gart voyde þame alle Þat were within þat house.
c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 1136 Voyde youre man and lat hym be ther oute.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xii. 137 He let voyden out of his Chambre alle maner of men.
1418 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 29 Y wille that the same Jonet be vtterliche excluded & voyded fro the forsaide Manere of Staverton.
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 11 Þe bischop was compelled to voyde hir with swech wordys: Go fro me, woman.
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lxii. 89 The pryour that was voyded and hydde vnder the bedde.
a1539 in Archaeologia (1882) 47 57 That ye voide out of your house Robert laurence and he nomore to resorte to the same.
1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties iii. f. 154 Al hearers beyng voyded out of the place, he commaunded, the yongman should comme to him.
1608 T. Dekker Dead Tearme sig. E2v Not to keepe any single woman in his house on the Holy-dayes, but the Bailiffe to see them voyded out of the Lordship.
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 26 Now the Bishops abrogated and voided out of the Church..the Episcopall arts begin to bud again.
(b) With adverbs as out or aloof.
ΚΠ
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) viii. xx. 190 b/1 Let him also voyde out at his gate, Ryotous people.
1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. vi. f. 119 [He] appointed certaine to wayte whiles he slept, which should voyde al men alowfe, to thintent he should not be disquieted with any noyse.
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xiii. 206 In his pastorall care he visited it [sc. the Temple] and in the zeale of God voided them out which did defile it.
ΚΠ
1402 T. Hoccleve Let. of Cupid 468 Voide hem our court, and banyssh hem for euer.
1483 Presentmts. of Juries in Surtees Misc. (1890) 28 We wyll þt schoy be woydyd the ton [= town].
?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. Dviv He warryd oft agaynst the danys but at the last by agrement he voydyd them the west contrey.
1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. A aii I knowe one Antiochus well,..but as for this fellowe, I perceiue he is a counterfeit, and therewith commaunded him to be voided his lodging.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [verb (transitive)]
outOE
deposec1300
remuec1325
to put out1344
to set downc1369
deprivec1374
outputa1382
removea1382
to throw outa1382
to put downc1384
privea1387
to set adowna1387
to put out of ——?a1400
amovec1425
disappoint1434
unmakec1475
dismiss1477
dispoint1483
voidc1503
to set or put beside (or besides) the cushion1546
relieve1549
cass1550
displace1553
unauthorize1554
to wring out1560
seclude1572
eject1576
dispost1577
decass1579
overboard1585
cast1587
sequester1587
to put to grass1589
cashier1592
discompose1599
abdicate1610
unseat1611
dismount1612
disoffice1627
to take off1642
unchair1645
destitute1653
lift1659
resign1674
quietus1688
superannuate1692
derange1796
shelve1812
shelf1819
Stellenbosch1900
defenestrate1917
axe1922
retire1961
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxxiijv/2 Yf that yeman be from you soo voyded ye shal take awey the lyueri of the said sherefs.
c1530 A. Barclay Egloges iii. sig. Piij v If thou chaunge supposynge, some better for to haue Thou voydest a lubber &hast agayne a knaue.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (reflexive)]
fersec1000
teec1275
voida1387
withdraw1390
takea1393
avoida1400
devoida1400
shifta1400
avyec1440
trussa1450
deferc1480
remove1530
convey1535
subtractc1540
subduce1542
retire?1548
substract1549
room1566
to take off1620
to make oneself scarce1809
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 391 Also he voidede and wiþ-drow hym from þat place.
1467 Maldon (Essex) Court Rolls (Bundle 43, No. 3v) The said Gilbert voided hymself owt of the same place without rent or farme paying.
a. 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. Obsolete.Very common from c1400 to c1645; now Obsolete (cf. sense 2d).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away from [verb (transitive)]
leaveeOE
beleavea1250
devoidc1325
voidc1330
roomc1400
wagc1400
departa1425
refusea1425
avoid1447
ishc1450
remove1459
absent1488
part1496
refrain1534
to turn the backc1540
quita1568
apart1574
shrink1594
to fall from ——1600
to draw away1616
to go off ——a1630
shifta1642
untenant1795
evacuate1809
exit1830
stash1888
split1956
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart from or leave [verb (transitive)]
leaveeOE
beleavea1250
devoidc1325
voidc1330
to pass out ofa1398
roomc1400
departa1425
avoid1447
ishc1450
part1496
quita1568
shrink1594
shifta1642
to turn out of ——1656
refraina1723
blow1902
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 5388 Bot whare so euere he hem [the Romans] fond He dide hem sone voyde þe lond.
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) i. pr. iv. 16 He comaunded but þat þei voided þe citee of Rauenne by certeyne day assigned þat men scholde..chasen hem out of toune.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 345 Bid me boȝe fro þis benche & stonde by yow þere, Þat I wyth-oute vylanye myȝt voyde þis table.
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xxxv Smale deer be kynde will rather voyde his couert þan will a gret herte.
c1440 Generydes 3335 He sent the word,..To voyde his grownde and tary not to long.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 236 I sulde sla þe with my hynder fete becauce þou wolde not voyde þe way, & giff me rowm to pass by þe.
c1500 Melusine (1895) xxxvii. 297 Goo your way & voyde my syght.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xxv. 36 So this syr Robert was fayne to voyde the realme of Fraunce, and went to Namure.
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. vii. xxix. 141 Paulus would not depart the Church, neither voyde the house.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 716 They voyded the Church, falling..as they sought to get out of the same.
1654 tr. M. Martini Bellum Tartaricum 36 They..withall commanded them speedily to voyd the City.
1732 C. Wogan Let. 27 Feb. in J. Swift Wks. (1841) II. 670 The whole shoal of virtuosoes were sensible to the stroke, and voided the room at once.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > dismount from
void1470
avoid1557
unstride1635
dismount1638
to get off ——1652
unmount1892
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur i. xvi. 58 Thenne the kynge of the C knyghtes voyded the hors lyghtly.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > traverse a distance or ground
runeOE
overcomeOE
meteOE
through-gangOE
passc1300
to pass over ——c1300
overpassc1325
tracec1381
travela1393
traverse?a1400
travelc1400
measure?a1425
walkc1450
go1483
journey1531
peragrate1542
trade1548
overspin1553
overtrace1573
tract1579
progress1587
invade1590
waste1590
wear1596
march1606
void1608
recovera1625
expatiate1627
lustrate1721
do1795
slip1817
cover1818
clear1823
track1823
itinerate1830
betravel1852
to roll off1867
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 218 They are slow of pace, and voyde ground very sluggishlie, and therfore it is iustly termed a heauy and slothfull beast.
d. To vacate (a seat). rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)]
vacate1791
void1853
disoccupy1872
1853 E. S. Sheppard Charles Auchester II. 38 Before I could gather with my glance who had left them, several seats were voided beneath us.
1885 Daily Tel. 17 Dec. (Cassell's) A wholesale system of voiding seats.
6. phr.1430–40 J. Lydgate Lenvoye in Bochas Fall of Princes (1558) ix. xxxviii. 37/1 Voyde [ye] the wede, of vertue take the corne.c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) 78 I shal..Voyde the chaff, & gadryn out the corn.† b. To clear away by destruction or demolition. Obsolete.† c. With immaterial object. Obsolete.Not always clearly distinguishable from sense 11.† d. To remove or take off (a helmet, etc.). Obsolete.† e. To cast, fling, or throw away (a sword); to bring or blow down (leaves). Obsolete.
a. To remove (something) so as to leave a vacant space; to take, put, or clear away; occasionally, to remove by emptying or taking out. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > clear out or away
kill?c1225
purge1340
void1390
roota1398
devoida1400
rida1450
betwechec1450
redd1479
to make (clean, quick, etc.) riddance1528
expurge1542
vacuate1572
free1599
cleanse1628
rede1638
to clear out1655
dress1701
to clear away1711
to clear off1766
dissaturate1866
cancel1990
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 231 Afterward hem stant no doute To voide with a soubtil hond The beste goodes of the lond.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 451 For with an apparence a clerk may make To mannes sighte þt alle the Rokkes blake Of Britaigne weren yvoyded euerichon.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 12 Þe Abbot & þe priour togydere seydin to þe scolere þat god had voydyd his synnes out of þat lettere, in counfortyng him þat his synnes ben forgeuyn.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 1898 Let al yeur marchandise Be voidit of yeur Shippis.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. iv. 51 He voyded the mete and toke the vayssell.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 769/1 I voyde a thyng out of the way, or out of syght, je oste.
a1552 J. Leland De Rebus Brit. Collectanea (1715) App. ii. 11 The Sewer geveth a voyder to the Carver, and he doth voyde into it the Trenchers..and so cleanseth the table cleane.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. vii. sig. Ffv A roll of linnen,..With which his locks,..Were bound about, and voyded from before. View more context for this quotation
1629 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1822) 113 The earth being drawn away below and settling over the part where it was voided.
1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre iv. 129 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian And having voyded away much earth from beneath those timbers, they shook..the Wall, and a part of it suddenly sunk.
1685 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 492 The Spectators..were exceedingly pleas'd to see in what a moment of time, all that curious work was demolish'd, & the Comfitures &c voided & table clear'd.
1855 R. Browning Epist. 40 'Sooth, it elates me, thus reposed and safe, To void the stuffing of my travel-scrip And share with thee whatever Jewry yields.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break down, demolish, or ruin
spillc950
fellOE
to cast downc1230
destroy1297
to turn up?c1335
to throw down1340
to ding downc1380
to break downa1382
subverta1382
underturn1382
to take downc1384
falla1400
to make (a building, etc.) plain (with the earth)a1400
voida1400
brittenc1400
to burst downc1440
to pull downc1450
pluck1481
tumble1487
wreck1510
defacea1513
confound1523
raze1523
arase1530
to beat downc1540
ruinate1548
demolish1560
plane1562
to shovel down1563
race?1567
ruin1585
rape1597
unwall1598
to bluster down16..
raise1603
level1614
debolish1615
unbuilda1616
to make smooth work of1616
slight1640
to knock down1776
squabash1822
collapse1883
to turn over1897
mash1924
rubble1945
to take apart1978
a1400–50 Alexander 1338 He blisches to þe burȝe & sees his bild voidid, Als bare as a bast his baistell a-way.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1013 Þis was a vengaunce violent þat voyded þise places, Þat foundered has so fayr a folk & þe folde sonkken.
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 370
1464 Rolls of Parl. V. 569/2 That all such Weres, Milles and Demmynges,..should be voided and clene beten downe.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > clear out or away > specific something immaterial
voida1382
dispossessa1616
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xv. 4 As myche as in thee is, thou hast voidid drede.
c1399 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 13 Bot who that is of charité perfit, He voideth alle sleightes ferr aweie.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 287 Þis mynde schal voyde fro þe suche euyll demynges, & euyll thouȝtys, woordys, and dedys.
c1530 Court of Love 628 I me bethought..Myne orison right goodly to devyse, And plesauntly..Beseech the goddes voiden my grevaunce.
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) Prol. sig. A.ij Mirth recreates our spirites and voydeth pensiuenesse.
1598 Chaucers Dreame in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 365v/1 I find ne might..thing that kerued,..Wherewith I might my woful pains Haue voided with bleeding of my vains.
1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 12 The cause that is joyned with it [the carbuncle] must be voided, with scarification deep enough.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > take off clothing
to do offeOE
to lay downc1275
to weve offc1290
stripc1320
doffa1375
loose1382
ofdrawa1393
casta1400
to take offa1400
warpa1400
to cast offc1400
to catch offc1400
waivec1400
voidc1407
to put off?a1425
to wap offc1440
to lay from, offc1480
despoil1483
to pull offc1500
slip1535
devest1566
to shift off1567
daff1609
discuss1640
to lay off1699
strip1762
douse1780
shuffle1837
derobe1841
shed1858
skin1861
peel1888
pull1888
c1407 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 1208 Thilke tyme, as I took hede, Her helme was voyded from hir hede.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur vii. xxiii. 249 He stroke doune that knyghte and voyded his helme and strake of his hede.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7092 He was glad of the gome, & o gode chere Voidet his viser, auentid hym seluyn.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > away
to cast awaya1300
to throw awaya1398
voida1400
off-hurlc1540
kest1590
a1400–50 Alexander 4145 Vulturnus þe violent þat voidis doun þe leuys.
c1400 Melayne 1069 And Charles voydede his broken brande, Owte he hent a knyfe in hande.
7.
a. Of persons, animals, or their organs: to discharge (some matter) from the body through a natural vent or orifice, esp. through the excretory organs; to eject by excretion or evacuation; †also, to spit or pour forth (venom).†Formerly also with out.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excrete [verb (transitive)]
yetOE
to put outa1350
void1398
expelc1405
avoid1562
ejaculate1578
excern1578
regurgitate1578
egest1607
evacuate1607
vent1607
expurgate1621
excrete1669
pass1698
to put off1740
re-ejaculate1826
(a)
figurative and in extended use.a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. v. 52 The Valleyes, whose low Vassall Seat, The Alpes doth spit, and void his rhewme vpon. View more context for this quotation1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 56 That's base wit, That voyds but filth, and stench.1651 J. Cleveland Poems (Wing C4684) 6 Thou man of mouth,..whose Musk-cat verse Voids nought but flowers for thy Muses herse.1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 184 For Anaxagoras..Believ'd the Heavens were made of Stone, Because the Sun had voyded one.1883 L. Villari tr. P. Villari Machiavelli & his Times III. ii. ii. 274 No sooner were the Tarquins dead than the nobles began to void their venom on the people.(b)1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. ii. 18 By one part the things that are needful are taken in; and by another the things that are superfluous are voyded out.1661 Pagitt's Heresiogr. (ed. 6) 167 We read of Arrius an Arch-heretick, that voided out his bowels at the Jakes.1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) v. xli For humours þat comeþ of þe melte..mowe not be yuoided att þe fulle.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1891 The vertu expulsyf or animal..Ne may the venym voyden ne expelle.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Miiiv Sumtymes whyles those thynges be voided, wherof is in ye body ouer great abundaunce.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 124 The more fylth he voydes at the mouth, the better wyll it be for him.
a1617 S. Hieron Doctrines Triall in Wks. (1620) II. 15 What good will a mans meate doe him, if he void it vp, through weaknesse of stomake, as fast as it is eaten?
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 215 My brother..fell, and voided much blood at the nose.
1684 R. Boyle Exper. Porosity of Bodies vi. 53 The Purulent matter hath been voided by Siege and Urine.
1738 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 548/2 Mr. D...took the Medicines, voided three small Stones, and became perfectly well.
1766 State, D. Macdonald v. Dk. Gordon Pursuer's Proof 7 The he-fish they carried off with them, and [he] has seen them often voiding the melt at their bellies.
1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 243 The patient voided his urine by the natural channel.
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. iv. 95 A white line, which..he found to consist of innumerable Acari, precisely the same with those that he had voided.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling iii. 82 It is astonishing what a vast number of eggs the female perch will void.
b. absol. To evacuate; to empty the bladder; to vomit.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > urinate [verb (transitive)]
pissc1390
voida1425
minge1611
extreat1628
urine1662
urinate1915
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (intransitive)] > vomit
spewc897
vomea1382
brake1393
perbreak?a1400
castc1440
envomish1480
parbreak1495
vomita1500
to cast the crawa1529
to cast (up), heave, spue up, vomit one's gorgea1529
galpa1535
to cast out1561
puke1586
purge1596
void1605
to jerk, shoot, whip the cat1609
rid1647
to flay the fox1653
posset1781
to shoot the cat1785
to throw up1793
throw1804
cascade1805
reject1822
yark1867
sick1924
to toss (also shoot, blow, etc.) one's cookies1927
to lose a dinner (or a meal)1941
to spew one's ring1949
chunder1950
barf1960
upchuck1960
yuck1963
ralph1966
to go for the big spit1967
vom1991
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > urinate [verb (intransitive)]
migheeOE
pissc1300
to make water?a1475
stale1530
leak1598
urinate1599
minge1606
urine1607
water1631
stroana1730
to pass water1738
to pump ship1759
piddle1784
to make one's burn1788
pittle1801
pee1825
micturate1842
tiddlea1852
leck1922
wet1925
whizz1929
wee-wee1930
wee1934
widdle1934
to go (make) wee-wee1937
tinkle1943
void1947
to take a leak1969
potty1972
slash1973
wazz1984
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) vi Whan þe wolfe sees [the greyhounds] and he be fulle, he voydeth both before and behynde alle in his rennynge.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 337 Still her monstrous maw Voides in deuouring.
1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick ix. vii. 267 It is not good to void sparingly in a crisis.
1734 J. Swift Strephon & Cloe in Beautiful Young Nymph 16 The Bride must either void or burst.
1832 W. Motherwell Poems 55 While one and all Hissed, fought, and voided on their thrall.
1947 Stafford & Diller Textbk. Surg. for Nurses xlix. 500 The patient's bladder must be empty; therefore..she should void before being draped for examination.
1966 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 94 796/1 Sixteen patients were investigated who were unable to void following operations.
1977 Lancet 21 May 1072/2 The patient voided, was catheterised, and then lay comfortably on a..couch.
a. To carry off or drain away (water, etc.); to discharge or let out. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > let out
outleteOE
letc1000
to let out1154
void14..
loose1568
to let forth1574
vent1587
to give vent1594
14.. Sir Beues (O.) 1320 A water thorough that preson ranne, To voyde the ffilth from any man.
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. 699 Euery hous..With spoutis þoruȝ, & pipes..Voyding filþes low in-to þe grounde.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin ii. 38 Whan the water was all voided thei saugh the two stones.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 141v You must looke..that where they [sc. sheepcots] stande, the grounde be made fayre and euen..that the vrine may be well voyded away.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 173 The water being voyded and kept out by Sluses and Bankes.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 586 The mountaine that was digged through..to void away the water out of the lough or meere Fucinus.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 213 Under this Middleton, there is voided also another river.
1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick ii. xv. 289 Every circumvolution voiding onely so much [water] as is contained in one Helix.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 91 One of these Pumps..will void a vast Quantity of Water in an Hour, with a great deal of ease.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)] > empty > empty (contents)
avoida1398
teemc1440
voida1475
empty1532
toom1535
empt1555
unload1603
to turn out?1609
dismaw1620
unvessel1633
to pack out1969
a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 5 Aftir þat þis erþely watir be voydid, putte..ȝoure fyngir to þe hoole.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 769/1 I voyde, I emptye, je vuyde.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 769/1 Voyde this water.
1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum ii. xxii. 55 As a water held in a close and darke vessel issueth out, is voided and emptied.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > action of river > [verb (transitive)] > disembogue
void1600
unload1603
dischannel1607
disembogue1610
outlade1610
the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > action of river > [verb (reflexive)] > disembogue
empty1553
shed1555
unburden1578
disburden1600
discharge1600
void1600
dischannel1607
disgorge1607
disengorge1610
enwave1628
expose1632
engulf1634
degorge1635
exhaust1833
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. 44 Finally it voideth into the sea at two mouths, one of which mouthes is a mile broad.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 439 Ob, the King of Riuers..In Scythian Seas voyding his violent loade.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 466 A little aboue it, the river Blith voideth it selfe into the sea.
1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §xix When the little rivulets haue once voyded themselues into the maine streames.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > make hollow [verb (transitive)] > form by hollowing out
sink?a1425
to cut out1548
void?1578
cut1634
hollow1648
to work out1774
excavate1839
tunnel1856
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 69 Holez wear thear allso & cauerns,..voyded intoo the wall.
III. To leave alone, keep clear of, and related uses.† 10. To leave alone, set aside; to abstain or refrain from; to have nothing to do with. Obsolete.† 11. † b. To get out of the way of (a blow, person, etc.); to avoid in this way. Obsolete.† 12. To prevent or obviate; to keep or ward off; = avoid v. 10. Obsolete.
a. A thing, action, course of conduct, etc. = avoid v. 8b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun
overboweOE
bibughOE
fleea1000
forbowa1000
ashun1000
befleec1000
beflyc1175
bischunc1200
withbuwe?c1225
waive1303
eschew1340
refuse1357
astartc1374
sparec1380
shuna1382
void1390
declinea1400
forbeara1400
shurna1400
avoidc1450
umbeschewc1485
shewe1502
evite1503
devoid1509
shrink1513
schew?a1534
devite1549
fly1552
abstract1560
evitate1588
estrange1613
cut1791
shy1802
skulk1835
side-slip1930
to walk away from1936
punt1969
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 105 For he doth al his thing be gesse, And voideth alle sikernesse.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 744 Nay þaȝ faurty forfete ȝet fryst I a whyle, & voyde away my vengaunce, þaȝ me vyl þynk.
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iv. 1072 Be wisdam lete vs voide pride And wilfulnes.
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 12 Þai haue wodid old vnthriftynes of venemus lyfe.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xvi. sig. I.viiv He fyrmelye purposeth vpon it, no lesse glad to doe it, then another man would be glad to voyde it.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 4017 Ho..voidet all vanities, & virtus dissyret.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 316/2 Because he by that meanes would voyde to mary wt Alesie.
1681 R. L'Estrange tr. Cicero Offices (ed. 2) 64 Beware..to void things that look Harsh, Rough, and Uncivil.
b. A person or persons: = avoid v. 8a.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > render unsociable [verb (transitive)] > avoid
voidc1374
eschew1377
avoidc1384
shirk1787
c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 295 I voyde companye, I fle gladnesse.
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 249 William..was i-corowned kyng at Westmynstre of Aldredus archebisshop of York, and voydede Stygandus archebisshop of Caunterbury.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 2456 Good sir,..why do yee void [e] me?..I woll ȝewe no more harm.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. v. 83 For if I had fear'd death, of all the Men i'th'World I would haue voided thee. View more context for this quotation
a. To keep clear of, to escape from or evade (something injurious or troublesome); = avoid v. 9. Obsolete.In later use containing a mixture of sense 6c.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > escape > escape from [verb (transitive)] > contrive to escape or evade
fleec1175
shunc1275
forgoc1305
passc1330
escapea1340
beglidea1350
voidc1380
shuntc1400
missa1522
evade1535
delude1536
to dally out1548
illude1553
prevent1598
outruna1616
to fail of1624
elude1634
subterfugea1643
shoot1685
shift1724
to get out of ——a1817
win by…1816
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 30 We þat hoten grete avowis to voiden angus and siiknessis of þis liif.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 347 And for þe Romayns scholde somdel voide þe cruelnesse, he made trompoures blowe.
a1400–50 Alexander (Dubl.) 2424 Bot whilke of yow as foundes frist on fote vs agayns, Sall neuer voyde my dysdane ne my derfe Ire.
1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 127/2 To eschewe and voyde the perils in thes seid Articles..expressed.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Aiiiiv Let se this checke yf ye voyde canne.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 54/2 A merueilouse case is it to here, either the warninges of that he shoulde haue voided, or the tokens of that he could not voide.
c1580 in Eng. Hist. Rev. July (1914) 524 He may rise or fall his price accordinglye and void manye inconveniences wiche the unskillfull fall in to.
1606 L. Bryskett Disc. Ciuill Life 16 The labyrinth which I desire most to eschew and voide.
1620 Hist. Frier Rush sig. C2v For to voyde all tribulations and misfortunes that might fall in time to come.
a1677 I. Barrow Serm. Several Occasions (1678) 41 For voiding which prejudices..I shall..propose some of those innumerable advantages.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > escape > escape from [verb (transitive)] > contrive to escape or evade > a blow, missile, or pursuit
waive1303
voida1500
devoid1509
avoid1530
shuna1586
shift1595
dodge1713
jinka1774
jouk1812
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement of [verb (transitive)] > cause to deviate from course > deviate from (course) > get out of the way of (a person)
voida1500
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin x. 159 He..leide a-boute hym on bothe sides, and slow all that he raught with a full stroke, so that thei voyded hys strokes and made hym rome.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. vi. sig. F But soone as th'other nigh approaching, vewed The armes he bore, his speare he gan abase, And voide his course. View more context for this quotation
1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 106 He had given streight commandement..that no man should trouble him, and all the way voided as many as were comming towards him.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. ix. 245 A patrone of Pilgrimages not able to void the blow yet willing to break the stroke of so..plain a testimonie.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)] > obviate
void1509
savea1522
obviate1567
avoid1608
1509 Parlyament Deuylles (de Worde) xxxviii If I tempte hym wt lechery, I must me hyde, He voydeth me of with chastyte.
1528 T. More in State Papers Henry VIII (1830) I. 285 Hym selfe and Your Grace, if it may be voided, wold be as lothe to have eny warre with theym.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 12109 Hit hade doutles ben done, and hire deth voidid, Had not Calcas þe cursit carpit before.
1605 J. Sylvester Sonnets upon Miraculous Peace in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. 600 Henry our King, our Father, voides our dangers, And..planteth Peace in France.
1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace 4 To void a bloody Civil War, The two Contendants should submit the Thing, To the Decision of the English King.
IV. To go away, depart; to become vacant or evacuated.† 14. To give oneself up to, devote one's time to, something. Obsolete. rare.† 15. To form an interval between. Obsolete. rare.† 16. Of a benefice, etc.: to become, fall, or remain vacant. Obsolete.† 17. Of matter, etc.: to come, flow, or pass out, esp. in or by evacuation or excretion; to issue. Obsolete.
13. intransitive. To go away, depart, withdraw from or leave a place or position; to retire or retreat; to give place, make way; to vanish or disappear: = avoid v. 6. Now Obsolete or archaic.Also const. (b) with adverbs, as aside, away, hence, thence, out, or (c) with prepositions as from, of, out of, to.† c. To give up possession or occupancy of a place. Obsolete. rare.
a. Of persons or animals.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear
formeltc893
wendOE
witea1000
aworthc1000
fleec1200
fleetc1200
withdraw1297
vanish1303
voidc1374
unkithea1400
startc1405
disappearc1425
disparishc1425
to fall awayc1443
evanish?a1475
vade1495
sinka1500
vade1530
fly1535
fadea1538
melt?1567
dispear1600
relinquish1601
foist1603
dispersea1616
to vanish (melt, etc.) into thin aira1616
dissipate1626
retire1647
evaporate1713
merge1802
illude1820
to foam off1826
dislimn1833
furl1844
to step out1844
evanesce1855
shade1880
wisp1883
to go to the winds1884
walk1898
to do a disappearing act1913
to go west1916
to do (or take) a fade1949
to phase out1970
(a)
(b)14.. W. Paris Cristine 435 (Horstm. 1878) She bade the serpens voyde awaye In to deserte.a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xi For whann a wilde boore is in a stronge hate of wode, peraventure..he wolde not voyed þens for þe rennynge houndes.1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxix Although I might hence voyde, yet wolde I not.1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 89/1 The brethren voyded a side, and withdrew themselues.1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 349 Erecthius and Aristomenes..voided aside to farre remote and hidden corners.(c)a1400–50 Alexander 1113 Þan waynest him þis vayne God & voidis fra þe chambre.14.. in Hist. Coll. Citizen London (Camden) 208 The quene hyrynge thys she voydyde unto Walys.a1500 (?c1450) Merlin vii. 108 Thei..dide hem wele to wite..that he sholde in all haste voide oute of the londe and the contree.1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xi. 107 b Jesus..commanded the deuil to voide out of hym, and he voided.?1548 Order Prince in Battayll muste Obserue sig. Biijv [To] remowe hys hoste..& voyde to some sure forteresse.1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Hogges (1627) 290 The strong sauor thereof wil cause the moules to void from those places.1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiv. xxix. 529 So they went their waies and voided clean out of Sicilie.c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 912 So whan it liked hire to gon to reste, And voyded were þey þat voyden oughte.
a1400 Coer de L. 2192 The folk of the countre gan renne, And were fain to void and flenne.
c1430 J. Lydgate Beware Doubleness 52 What man may..holde a snake by the tail, Or a sliper eel constraine That it nil voide, withouten fail.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 2287 ‘Nay, þow shalt nat void!’ he seid; ‘my tale is nat I-do.’
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur i. xvi. 58 Yonder I see the moste valyaunt knyght of the world.., wherfore we must nedes voyde or deye.
a1535 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1277/2 He voyded not at Gods commyng, but abode to see the sentence of theyr dampnacion.
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iii. iii. sig. E.jv Uoyde sirs, see ye not maister Roister Doister come? Make place my maisters.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 756 Whose warres whoso well consider, he shall no lesse commend his wisedome where he voyded, then his manhood where he vanquished.
1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 102 He caused all his traine and company to void.
1896 J. H. Wylie Hist. Eng. Henry IV III. lxxxvii. 477 As he almost got knocked down in a crowd, he very soon voided.]
b. Of things, material and immaterial.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go or move away specifically of things
forgoc950
worthOE
atgoc1175
alithec1275
withdraw1297
lenda1350
withgoa1400
to go farewellc1400
voidc1400
startc1405
overdrawa1450
recedec1450
sinkc1450
remove1481
regress1552
to-gang1596
elongate1646
abscede1650
discede1650
to take a walk1871
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1548 Þenne hit [sc. the hand] vanist verayly & voyded of syȝt, Bot þe lettres bileued ful large vpon plaster.
c1430 Hymns Virgin (1867) 65 Þi fleischeli lustis þou muste spare, For vicis and vertues wole voide atwynne.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxlvv So thilke bodily goodes at the laste mote awaye, and than stynge they at her goynge, wherthrough entreth and clene voydeth al blisse of this knot.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7029 And the duke with a dynt derit hym agayn, Þat the viser & the ventaile voidet hym fro.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7133 Wen þe day vp drogh, & þe dym voidit.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Aug. 164 Let all that sweete is, voyd; and all that may augment My doole, drawe neare.
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 46 So when the soule filleth it selfe with certaine and true goods, vanitie voideth and giueth place.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 567 Least that the smell or fume doe fade, and voide away.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > make relinquishment [verb (intransitive)] > give up possession or occupancy
void1518
vacate1854
the mind > possession > non-possession > fact of not being possessed or owned > be without owner or occupier [verb (intransitive)] > give up possession or occupancy
void1518
vacate1854
1518 Yorkshire Deeds (Yorks. Archaeol. Soc., 1914) II. 92 If the said Cristofer haue nede..to com and dwell vpon the said fermehold..then the said John to wode of it vpon resonable warnyng.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > devote or apply oneself to something
study1340
yield?a1366
voida1382
vacatea1706
to give of oneself1926
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Esther ix. 17 Thei ordeyneden..that in that time eche ȝer therafter thei shulden voiden [L. vacarent] to plenteuous metis..and to ioȝe, and to festis.
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the world > time > [verb (intransitive)] > form an interval between
voida1387
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 41 Dayes and monþes þat voydede bytwene tweie Kynges were forgendred.
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society > faith > worship > benefice > [verb (intransitive)] > be or become vacant
voida1380
fall1433
vakec1485
avoid1521
a1380 St. Ambrose 204 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 204 Hit befel afturward sikerliche Þat in a cite voyded a bisschopriche.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 109 After þe passioun of Marcellinus þe pope, þe see voydede meny dayes.
1421 King Henry V in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 71 Hit is wel oure entent whanne any sucche benefice voydeth of oure yifte yat ye make collacion to him yrof.
1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 75/1 When sumever hit happen the said House or Hospitall here after to void by deth..or any other wise.
1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xxxvii. f. lxxxxvi It ys sayd that benefycs, dygnytyes, and personages voydyng in the courte of Rome maye not be gyuen but by the pope.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excrete [verb (intransitive)]
pass?c1425
void1558
purge1596
expurgate1621
excrete1832
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)]
outgoeOE
to come outOE
forthcomeOE
to go outOE
to go outOE
ishc1330
to take forth one's way (also journey, road, etc.)a1375
proceedc1380
getc1390
exorta1400
issue?a1400
precedec1425
purgea1430
to come forthc1449
suea1450
ushc1475
to call one's way (also course)1488
to turn outa1500
void1558
redound1565
egress1578
outpacea1596
result1598
pursue1651
out1653
pop1770
to get out1835
progress1851
1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount (1568) 41 b To the intent that al the venom may comme out and voide from the heart.
1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 33 The..gut through the whyche the ordure voydeth.
1596 T. Danett tr. P. de Commynes Hist. vi. xi. 233 By meanes whereof all fumes voided that troubled his head.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 433 Presently the filth and excrements will void cleane away.
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. v. 83 Knock hard upon it, till..the Basil of The Chissel will no longer force the chips out of the Mortess: then..work..till the Chips will void no longer.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 244 It feeds chiefly upon pepper, which it devours very greedily, gorging itself in such a manner, that it voids it crude and unconcocted.
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