(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.
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Vacant
Definition:
(a.) Deprived of contents; not filled; empty; as, a vacant room.
(a.) Unengaged with business or care; unemployed; unoccupied; disengaged; free; as, vacant hours.
(a.) Not filled or occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer; as, a vacant throne; a vacant parish.
(a.) Empty of thought; thoughtless; not occupied with study or reflection; as, a vacant mind.
(a.) Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier; as, a vacant estate.
Example Sentences:
(1) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
(2) Deafferentation of certain brain regions in adult animals results in (1) the disappearance of degenerating axon terminals and (2) in the temporary persistence of vacant postsynaptic sites.
(3) The data suggests that putrescine may reduce net formation of vacant 70 S ribosomes.
(4) Hiddleston, who played spy Jonathan Pine in the Night Manager, has played down speculation that he would take on the role, recently telling the BBC’s Graham Norton Show: “The position isn’t vacant as far as I’m aware.
(5) The station looks unloved and there are many vacant plots of land.
(6) Simulated territorial intrusion promoted increased plasma levels of both T and 11KT while access to vacant territories without neighboring territorial males did not.
(7) Abbott said Simpkins and Randall were “perfectly entitled” to call for the two leadership positions to be declared vacant, but they were “asking the party room to vote out the people that the electorate voted in in September 2013”.
(8) Richard Rogers has called for a "severe" new tax on empty homes and warned that prime areas of London are emptying because of wealthy buyers leaving homes vacant.
(9) An online communication facility to the central register enables searches for and reporting of vacant treatment capacity.
(10) This pathological response can be explained by lacrimotor fibres branching into vacant sympathetic sudomotor pathways.
(11) Skin biopsies of non-atopic healthy controls or clinically uninvolved skin in mycosis fungoides had neither any IgE+ cells nor any vacant binding sites.
(12) They almost found themselves three goals down as Schürrle took up the space once again left vacant by Marcelo, but, after taking a touch, he fired over.
(13) Labour strategists are understood to be planning to stage an early byelection in a vacant Greater Manchester seat in an attempt to minimise the potential of an embarrassing threat from the UK Independence party.
(14) It is concluded that the extent of reactive reflex changes may be related to both the number of vacant synaptic sites and the degree of functional synergism between the eliminated and remaining monosynaptic pathways.
(15) Four weeks later, it was found in the specimens that the growth of neurofibers sprung out from the end of the proximal stump directed towards the distal nerve stump rather than towards the tendon end or the vacant limb of the tube.
(16) Vacant buildings are being pressed into service, and the usual high standards set by the immigration service are being waived.
(17) I would like to see a law passed where there is an obligation on owners of properties left vacant for a long time to allow homeless people to temporarily move in.
(18) The West Ham board are now considering their options, with interest registered with a number of candidates for the vacant managerial position.
(19) NHS England expresses the same concern in the leaked draft report: “The commitment to seven-day GP access is … dependent on the commitment to an additional 5,000 GPs working in general practice, which is a challenging target, both in terms of recruitment and retaining the existing workforce.” Porter said the document “echoes the BMA’s concerns around the government’s recruitment target for GPs, at a time when one in three GPs are considering retiring in the next five years and hundreds of GP trainee posts were left vacant this year.
(20) A 22-year-old named Guy Roux sent off an application for the vacant head coach's job at l'Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise.