▪ I. devoid, a.
(dɪˈvɔɪd)
Also 5–6 devoide, -voyde, 5 -vode, 6 -voyd.
[Originally pa. pple. of devoid v., short for (or collateral variant of) devoided: see next.]
With of: Empty, void, destitute (of some attribute); entirely without or wanting. (Originally participial, like bereft, and, like the latter, only used predicatively, or following its substantive.)
| c 1400 Rom. Rose 3723 Devoid of pride certaine she was. 1430 Lydg. Chron. Troy i. v, So is my meaning cleane devoyde of syn. c 1465 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 2 Devode of vices. 1509 Hawes Conv. Swearers 47 Go lytell treatyse deuoyde of eloquence. 1530 Palsgr. 310/1 Devoyde, without or delyvered of a thyng, vuyde. 1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 101 He lay speechlesse, deuoid of sence and motion. 1660 Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. xxxiii. (1682) 126 Though it be not quite devoy'd of all body whatsoever. 1762 Falconer Shipwr. iii. 181 A wretch deform'd, devoid of ev'ry grace. 1865 W. G. Palgrave Arabia I. 410 A very simple style of dress, devoid of ornament or pretension. |
b. without of: Void, empty. rare.
| 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. ix. 15 When I awoke, and found her place devoyd, And nought but pressed gras where she had lyen, I sorrowed all so much as earst I joyd. |
▪ II. † devoid, v. Obs. or rare.
Forms: 4–7 devoyde, 4–6 -vode, 5–6 -voyd, -vyde, 5–7 -void(e, (4–5 dewoyde, 5 -voyede, 6 -wod, -woyd, -wid).
[a. OF. de-, desvoidier, -vuidier, -voyder, in mod.F. dévider, f. de-, des- (L. dis-) + vuide, mod. vide, empty. Cf. med.L. disvacuāre, in same sense.
(In 15–16th c. sometimes confused in form with divide.)]
† 1. trans. To cast out, get rid of, do away with, remove, expel; to void. Obs.
| c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. A. 15 Wyschande þat wele Þat wont watz whyle deuoyde my wrange. Ibid. B. 544 De-voydynge þe vylanye þat venkquyst his þewez. c 1400 Rom. Rose 2929 Right so is al his woo fulle soone Devoided clene. a 1400–50 Alexander 4327 Auyrice & errogaunce & all we devoide. c 1420 Liber Cocorum (1862) 45 Devoyde þo worme⁓etone alle bydene. c 1485 Digby Myst. iii. 787 We xal gete yow leches, ȝower peynes to devyde. 1508 Dunbar Tua Mariit Wem. 166, I sall the venome devoid with a vent large, And me assuage of the swalme, that suellit wes gret. 1509 Hawes Past. Pleas. 45, 61, 63, 64. |
† b. To destroy, annihilate. Obs.
| c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. B. 908 For we schal tyne þis toun & trayþely disstrye, Wyth alle þise wyȝez so wykke wyȝtly deuoyde. a 1400–50 Alexander 3875 To be deuowrid & devoidid and vencuste for euire. |
† c. To empty out, pour out, discharge. Obs.
| c 1450 Bk. Curtasye 718 in Babees Bk. (1868) 323 For a pype þer is insyde so clene, Þat water deuoydes, of seluer schene. 1513 Douglas æneis xiii. i. 10 The Latyn pepyll..gan devoid [v. r. devode], and hostit owt full cleyr Deip from thar brestis the hard sorow smart. |
† 2. To vacate; to leave. Obs.
| c 1325 Coer de L. 1228 He took hys doughter by the hand, And bad her swythe devoyde hys land. a 1450 Le Morte Arth. 1167 There-fore devoyede my companye. 1545 Aberdeen Reg. V. 19 (Jam.) He is ordanit to dewid the tovnn within xxiiij houris. |
† b. refl. To withdraw (oneself). Obs.
| a 1400 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 243, I am with ȝow at alle tymes whan ȝe to councel me calle, But for a short tyme myself I devoyde. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 123 Or tha culd diuyde thame of that land, Tha war baith tane and fast bund fit and hand. |
† c. intr. (for refl.) To go away, withdraw.
| c 1485 Digby Myst. v. 380 Here lucyfere devoydeth, and commyth in ageyne as a goodly galaunt. 1497 in Phil. Trans. XLII. 421 That they devoyd and pass with thame. |
† 3. trans. To avoid, shun; to get out of the way of. Obs.
| 1509 Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxv. xviii, I ful swyftly dyd geve back ful oft, For to devoyde his great strokes unsoft. 1530 Palsgr. 515/1 It shalbe harde to devoyde this mater: ce seroyt forte chose de euiter ceste matiere. |
† 4. To empty; to make void or empty. Obs.
| a 1400–50 Alexander 2938 Alexander..clekis vp þe coupe & putis in his bosom. Anoþire boll was him broȝt & bathe he deuoydid. c 1430 Lydg. in Turner Dom. Archit. III. 39 The canell scoured was so clene, And deuoyded into secrete wyse. |
† b. To empty, clear, rid, free (of). Obs.
| c 1450 Holland Howlat 519, I sal devoid the of det, Or de in the place. c 1500 Lancelot 1022 Now help thi-self at neid, And the dewod of euery point of dred. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 163 To devoid Scotland Of Inglismen. 1548 Gest Pr. Masse 80 Howe coulde the bread and wyne serve to hys purpose, yf they were utterly divoided of theyr accostumed nature? |
† 5. To render void or of none effect. rare—1.
| 1601 Bp. W. Barlow Defence 225 Least..the Apostles labour, by their carelesse leuitie, or carnall securitie, should bee deuoyded and abased. |
6. To make devoid; to divest. rare. nonce-wd.
| 1878 N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 372 In any minds, so devoided of their religious sentiments. |
† Hence deˈvoided ppl. a., divested, made void.
| c 1430 Lydg. Bochas i. ii. (1544) 4 b, As a prince devoyded of all grace Against God he gan for to compasse. 1605 Timme Quersit. i. iii. 10 Those things which are made by arte..are deuoided of all sense and motion. |