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adjective

Vacant adj.

1.

Deprived of contents; not filled; empty; as, a vacant room. "Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form." "Being of those virtues vacant." "There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair."

2.

Unengaged with business or care; unemployed; unoccupied; disengaged; free; as, vacant hours. "Religion is the interest of all; but philosophy of those... at leisure, and vacant from the affairs of the world." "There was not a minute of the day which he left vacant."

3.

Not filled or occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer; unoccupied; as, a vacant throne; a vacant house; a vacant apartment; a vacant parish. "Special dignities which vacant lie For thy best use and wearing."

4.

Empty of thought; thoughtless; not occupied with study or reflection; as, a vacant mind. "The duke had a pleasant and vacant face." "When on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood."

5.

(Law) Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier; as, a vacant estate.

Vacant succession (Law), one that is claimed by no person, or where all the heirs are unknown, or where all the known heirs to it have renounced it.

Synonyms: Empty; void; devoid; free; unemployed; disengaged; unincumbered; uncrowded; idle. Vacant, Empty. A thing is empty when there is nothing in it; as, an empty room, or an empty noddle. Vacant adds the idea of having been previously filled, or intended to be filled or occupied; as, a vacant seat at table; a vacant office; vacant hours. When we speak of a vacant look or a vacant mind, we imply the absence of the intelligence naturally to be expected there.

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Etymology of 'Vacant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vacant" Quotes from Famous Books

... he obtained the position of Cantor at the St. Thomas School, in Leipzig, left vacant by the death of Kuhnau; here he remained until his death. In 1749 the English oculist, Taylor, happened to be in Leipzig. On the advice of friends, Bach submitted to an operation on his eyes, which had always ...

— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell

... certainly not," mumbled the doughty advocate, in considerable surprise and confusion, as he caught his breath and meekly looked around for a vacant place. ...

— Manasseh - A Romance of Transylvania • Maurus Jokai

... ask how it was that a spacious land seemed to lie vacant for the Corsairs to occupy, and a land too that offered almost every feature that a pirate could desire for the safe and successful prosecution of his trade. Geographers tell us that in climate and formation the island of Barbary, for such it is geologically, ...

— The Story of the Barbary Corsairs • Stanley Lane-Poole

... on Third Street, and the schoolroom was built off the back parlor, which was used as a recitation-room for the older class. There were about twenty little girls, none of them older than twelve. At the end of the yard was a vacant lot, fenced in, which ...

— A Little Girl in Old New York • Amanda Millie Douglas

... this adjustment of the question, so far as the Arapahoes are concerned, meet the approval of Congress, separate negotiations will be entered into with the Cheyennes, with a view to obtaining their relinquishment of the reservation of 1867, and their location on some vacant tract within the same general section of the ...

— The Indian Question (1874) • Francis A. Walker

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