Voided

ppl. a. [f. VOID v.]

  † 1.  Made void or empty; emptied or cleared of contents. Obs.

1382.  Wyclif, Job xiv. 11. What maner if watris gon awei fro the se, and flod voided [L. fluvius vacuefactus] waxe drie.

1426.  Lydg., De Guil. Pilgr., 6177. Humblely I yow be-seke,… My voyded herte to fulfylle, Wych so longe … hath voyde be.

c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 512/1. Voydy[d], or avoydyd (K. voydid,… auoyded), evacuatus.

c. 1482.  J. Kay, trans. Caoursin’s Siege of Rhodes (1870), ¶ 10. [The bridge] was made with voyded pypes and with bords strongly nayled upon them.

1563.  A. Neville, Seneca’s Œdipus, I. A iij.

  2.  Having a part or portion cut out so as to leave a void or vacant space: † a. Of shoes: Made with the front or uppers cut away or left open. Obs.

a. 1539.  in Archaeologia, XLVII. 53. That noon of the said religious susters doo use … eny such voyded shoys.

1555.  W. Watreman, Fardle Facions, II. ii. 121. They vse a kinde of voided shoes (whiche afterwarde the Grieques toke vp, and called sandalium).

1565.  Cooper, Thesaurus, Crepida, a low voyded shooe with a latchet.

  † b.  Of a garment: Cut so as to show the skin or another garment beneath. Obs. rare.

a. 1548.  Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII., 6 b. Doblettes of Crimosin veluet, voyded lowe on the backe and before to the cannell bone.

a. 1623.  G. Buck, Rich. III., I. (1646), 26. The King and Queene … then ascended to the high Altar shifting their Robes, and putting on other open and voyded in sundry places for their Anoynting.

  c.  Her. Of a charge or ordinary (see quots. 1704, 1780). Voided per cross (see quot. c. 1828).

1572.  Bossewell, Armorie, 26. There are also to bee … seene in armes Crosses doble partited,… persed, graded, & voyded, &c. Ibid., II. 126. He beareth Argent, on a Bende Gules, thre Mascles de Or, voyded…. Whensoeuer ye shall see eyther Losenge, Mascle, or other thynge voyded of the fielde, Fesse, bende, &c., whereon theye stande, it is sufficient to saye, voyded, onelye.

1704.  J. Harris, Lex. Techn., I. Voided, a Term in Heraldry, when there are Lines drawn within, and Parallel to the out Lines of any Ordinary: This expresses an Exemption of something of the thing Voidable, and makes the Field appear transparent thro’ the Charge.

1780.  Edmondson, Her., II. Voided, is a term applied to any ordinary, as a fesse, chevron, pale, etc. when it is pierced through, so that the field appears, and nothing remains of the charge but its edge.

c. 1828.  Berry, Encycl. Her., I. Gloss., Voided per cross is a voiding in the form of a cross, such as a cross moline, and the like, voided, or cut out in the middle in the shape of a plain cross, through which the field is seen.

1864.  Boutell, Her. Hist. & Pop., xxxi. (ed. 3), 460. A cross gu., voided of the field.

1883.  C. F. Keary, in S. L. Poole, Coins & Medals (1894), 114. The pennies of Alexander II. have short and long voided crosses, like those of Henry III.

  3.  Emitted by evacuation; evacuated. rare.

1784.  Cowper, Task, V. 95. Their nauseous dole … Of voided pulse and half-digested grain.