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Voided

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.

Voided

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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voided

vb. (en-past of: void)

Usage examples of "voided".

Brodie reports the history of a case in a negress who voided a fetus from an abscess at the navel about the seventeenth month of conception.

Georgia and Florida not materially different from that voided in the Bailey Case, were found to be unconstitutional.

Similarly, negligence by one or all the participants in a grade crossing collision not being inferable from the latter occurrence, the Court voided a Georgia statute which declared that a railroad shall be liable in damages to person or property by the running of trains unless the company shall make it appear that its agents exercised ordinary diligence, the presumption in all cases being against the company, and which was construed by State courts as permitting said presumption of evidence to be weighed against opposing testimony and to prevail unless such testimony is found by a jury to be preponderant.

Whether action of an administrative agency, which voluntarily affords notice and hearing in proceedings in which due process would require the same, is voided by the fact that the statute in pursuance of which it operates does not expressly provide such protection, is a question as to which the Supreme Court has developed no definitive answer.

Isozaki urinated in his shipsuit and would have voided his bowels if they had not been already empty.

Beauty without Being could not be, nor Being voided of Beauty: abandoned of Beauty, Being loses something of its essence.

Parry of Berkshire in 1668 voided the bones of a fetus through the flesh above the os pubis, and in 1684 she was alive and well, having had healthy children afterward.

Zacutus Lusitanus describes an infant with an imperforate membrane over its anus who voided feces through the urethra for three months.

His urine and stools were voided in normal quantities, the excess being vomited.

Throughout her fast she had periodic convulsions, and voided no urine or feces for twelve months before her death.

Swammerdam records a similar case, and Fabricius ab Aquapendente noticed a case in which the opening in the thorax showed immediate signs of improvement after the patient voided large quantities of bloody urine.

Gooch quotes the case of a man, belonging to the Court of Paris, who, nine months after swallowing a knife, voided it at the groin.

Ducachet mentions two cases at the Georgetown Seminary Hospital during the late war in which Minie balls entering the abdominal wall were voided by the anus in a much battered condition.

There is also mentioned the case of a woman who voided worms from the bladder.

Urine was voided by jerks and with difficulty, and only when the subject was placed in the knee and elbow position.