Definition of vacant

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

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Vacant :: Vacant (a.) Deprived of contents; not filled; empty; as, a vacant room..
Vacant :: Vacant (a.) Empty of thought; thoughtless; not occupied with study or reflection; as, a vacant mind..
Supply :: Supply (n.) A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit..
Vacant :: Vacant (a.) Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier; as, a vacant estate..
Gap :: Gap (n.) An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass..
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..
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.
Mandate :: Mandate (n.) A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation..
Enthrone :: Enthrone (v. t.) To induct, as a bishop, into the powers and privileges of a vacant see..
Stroam :: Stroam (v. i.) To wander about idly and vacantly.
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..
Vacant :: Vacant (a.) Not filled or occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer; as, a vacant throne; a vacant parish..
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..
Supply :: Supply (v. t.) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of; as, to supply a pulpit..
Provision :: Provision (n.) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation..
Full :: Full (Compar.) Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people..
Blank :: Blank (a.) Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant..
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.].
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