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vacate (iou) and Heidenstam, (Carl Gustaf) Verner von (sh)


vacate (iou)



vacate verb. M17.
[Latin vacat- pa. ppl stem of vacare be empty or unoccupied: see -ATE3.]
I. verb trans.
a. Make void in law; deprive of legal authority or validity; annul, cancel. M17.
Ld Macaulay A bill vacating all grants of Crown property.
b. transf. Deprive of force or efficacy; make inoperative, meaningless, or useless. Now rare or obsolete. M17.
c. Remove or withdraw (something). rare. M18.
Make (a post or position) vacant; deprive of an occupant or holder. L17.
E. A. Freeman The throne which, when it was vacated, was filled by Hadrian.
b. Leave (an office, position, etc.) vacant by death, resignation, or retirement. M19.
Leave, cease to occupy, (a place, seat, house, etc.). L18.
P. H. Johnson A guest had vacated the room..that morning. W. Trevor Vacated his chair and sat on the piano stool. fig.: R. H. Tawney Ground..vacated by the Christian moralist is quickly occupied by theorists of another order.
II. verb intrans.
Give up an office or position; retire. E19.
Take a holiday or vacation. US. M19.
vacatable adjective L19.

Heidenstam, (Carl Gustaf) Verner von (sh)




born July 6, 1859, Olshammar, Swed.
died May 20, 1940, ?vralid

Swedish poet and novelist.

His first book of poems, Pilgrimage and Wander Years (1888), drew on his years living in southern Europe and the Middle East and was an immediate Success. With his essay "Renaissance" (1889), he became a leader of the opposition in Sweden to naturalism, calling for a rebirth of the literature of fantasy, Beauty, and nationalism. Many of the poems he wrote in this vein are translated in Sweden's Laureate (1919). He also wrote historical Fiction, including The Charles Men (1897-98) and The Tree of the Folkungs (1905-07). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1916.