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Vacancy :: Vacancy (n.) The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness..

Vacant :: Vacant (a.) Unengaged with business or care; unemployed; unoccupied; disengaged; free; as, vacant hours..

Interregnum :: Interregnum (n.) The time during which a throne is vacant between the death or abdication of a sovereign and the accession of his successor.

Disengaged :: Disengaged (a.) Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant.

Empty :: Empty (v. t.) To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern..

Commendam :: Commendam (n.) A vacant living or benefice commended to a cleric (usually a bishop) who enjoyed the revenue until a pastor was provided. A living so held was said to be held in commendam. The practice was abolished by law in 1836.

Vacuous :: Vacuous (a.) Empty; unfilled; void; vacant.

Leisure :: Leisure (n.) Freedom from occupation or business; vacant time; time free from employment.

Lacuna :: Lacuna (n.) A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane..

Waste :: Waste (v.) Old or abandoned workings, whether left as vacant space or filled with refuse..

Vacantly :: Vacantly (adv.) In a vacant manner; inanely.

Voided :: Voided (a.) 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..

Vacancy :: Vacancy (n.) That which is vacant.

Vacant :: Vacant (a.) Not filled or occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer; as, a vacant throne; a vacant parish..

Option :: Option (n.) A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; -- annulled by Parliament in 1845..

Enthrone :: Enthrone (v. t.) To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see..

Advowson :: Advowson (n.) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.].

Stroam :: Stroam (v. i.) To wander about idly and vacantly.

Provision :: Provision (n.) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation..

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

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