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valid, a. (and n.)|ˈvælɪd|
Also 6–7 valide, 8 valed.
[ad. F. valide (OF. valide, Sp., It., Pg. valido) or L. valid-us strong, powerful, effective, f. valēre to be strong, etc.]
1. Good or adequate in law; possessing legal authority or force; legally binding or efficacious.
1571Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 95 Seing his said tak is valide and sufficient in the self. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. xv. 72 The nature of Justice, consisteth in keeping of valid Covenants. a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 2 Whatsoever is decreed and constituted, that for the time is Valid, being made so by Arts and Laws. 1726in Nairne Peerage Evidence (1874) 36 Declareing if I do not exerce these faculties in my own time these presents shall remain a valed evident albeit not delivered by me. 1769Robertson Chas. V, ix. Wks. 1851 IV. 315 This strange tribunal founded its charge upon the ban of the empire, which..was..destitute of every legal formality which could render it valid. 1786Burke Art. agst. W. Hastings Wks. II. 90 A claim, which they determined not to comply with but in return for the surrender of another equally valid. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India III. 257 Those, who held rent-free lands by titles that might be declared valid. 1878Jevons Primer Pol. Econ. 128 According to law, deeds, leases, cheques, receipts, contracts, and many other documents are not legally valid unless they be stamped.
b. Eccl. Technically perfect or efficacious.
1674J. Owen Holy Spirit (1693) 235 So as that the Call to Office should yet be valid. c1680Beveridge Serm. (1729) I. 28 Not but that the ordination is valid. 1876Mellor Priesth. viii. 361 No ordination is valid unless there be in the recipient of orders what is termed in the Church of Rome an habitual, or, at least, a virtual intention.
2. Of arguments, proofs, assertions, etc.: Well founded and fully applicable to the particular matter or circumstances; sound and to the point; against which no objection can fairly be brought.
a1648Ld. Herbert Autobiog. (1764) 138 The whole face of Affairs was presently changed, insomuch that neither my Reasons, nor the Ambassadors.., how valid soever cou'd prevail. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 115 He may admit of those Arguments as valid and conclusive. 1717Prior Alma i. 416 For when One's Proofs are aptly chosen; Four are as valid as four Dozen. 1766Pitt in Almon Anecd. xxix. (1810) I. 432 The excuse is a valid one, if it is a just one. 1803Wellington in Gurwood Disp. (1835) II. 164 Reasons which I thought valid but which I do not think it necessary to communicate to him. 1859Mill Liberty ii. 36 An objection which applies to all conduct, can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular. 1881Westcott & Hort Grk. N.T. Introd. §46 A generalisation obtained from one book would be fairly valid for all the rest.
b. In general use: Effective, effectual; sound.
1651Hobbes Govt. & Soc. ii. §7. 23 If yet to words relating to the future, there shall some other signes be added, they may become as valid, as if they had been spoken of the present. 1774Reid Aristotle's Logic ii. §2. 183 This same et cætera..shall in any future time shew a good and valid right to a property in the subject. 1824Byron Juan xvi. xxxv, The effort was not valid To hinder him from growing still more pallid. 1860Mansel Proleg. Log. (ed. 2) 22 The only valid method of investigating the relation between thought and speech. 1875Geo. Eliot in Cross Life III. 253, I should urge you to consider your early religious experience as a portion of valid knowledge.
3. Of things: Strong, powerful. Now arch.
1656Blount Glossogr., Valid, strong, mighty, puissant, able. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 438 Perhaps more valid Armes, Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us. 1807Crabbe Birth of Flattery 109 So on a dream our peasant placed his hope, And found that rush as valid as a rope. 1887Browning Parleyings Wks. 1896 II. 692/2 What beseems a king who cannot reign, But to drop sceptre valid arm should wield? 1891Cornh. Mag. Nov. 493 In addition to the strong jaws..there are three exceedingly valid hooks.
†b. Of malt liquor: Unduly thick. Obs.—1
1742London & Co. Brewer i. (ed. 4) 38 They also keep it from running into such Cohesions as would make it ropy, valid, and sour.
4. Of persons: Sound or robust in body; possessed of health and strength. Also said of health.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 139 The more valetudinary have commonly been the more vertuous; and the more valid, the more vitious. 1708Motteux Rabelais (1737) V. 232 Thanks to Jove's Benignity you're valid. 1757E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (1767) IV. 137, I much fear his excessive Grief may injure his Health, which is not very valid, at present. 1879Sala in Daily Telegr. 12 June, When he was a valid man he may have had many a boxing bout with Shaw the Life Guardsman. 1899Daily News 1 Dec. 7/1 The Boers have evidently put every valid male into the field.
b. Of the mind: Sane, strong. rare.
1854Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Poet. & Imag. Wks. (Bohn) III. 139 The restraining grace of common-sense is the mark of all the valid minds.
5. As n. A person in good health. Opposed to invalid n. 1.
1882Pall Mall G. 20 Sept. 5 Kuristen and valids may alike thank Dr. Yeo for a series of highly interesting and instructive Essays. |