voided

English

Left: a cross voided. Right: a cross voided throughout.
Voided ordinaries can be ambiguous: the arms on the left are variously a chevron voided or two chevrons, on the right is a fess voided which, other than being charged, resembles two bars or a bar gemel.

Verb

voided

  1. simple past and past participle of void

Adjective

voided (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) With the centre cut out.
    • 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 479:
      The shield was silver, charged with a red cross voided (that is, with the centre cut out and only the edges left), between in chief (that is, above the horizontal limb of the cross) two black dragon's wings, and in base two red daggers, and in the centre of the cross a black winged helmet; on a red chief (a broad band across the top of the shield), a silver pale (a broad vertical band), and thereon eight black arrows crossed X-wise, four and four, and encircled with a black band, between on the dexter three bendlets (narrow bands slanting from dexter chief to sinister base) enhanced (that is, raised above the centre), and on the sinister a fleur-de-lis, all of gold.

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