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voided |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Void \Void\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Voided}; p. pr & vb n. {Voiding}.] [OF. voidier vuidier See {Void}, a.] 1. To remove the contents of to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit to leave as to void a table. Void anon her place --Chaucer. If they will fight with us bid them come down Or void the field. --Shak. 2. To throw or send out to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as to void excrements. A watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices. --Barrow. With shovel, like a fury, voided out The earth and scattered bones. --J. Webster. 3. To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify. After they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken --Bp. Burnet. It was become a practice . . . to void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed. --Clarendon. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Voided \Void"ed\, a. 1. Emptied; evacuated. 2. Annulled; invalidated. 3. (Her.) Having the inner part cut away or left vacant, a narrow border being left at the sides, the tincture of the field being seen in the vacant space; -- said of a charge.
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