||Valet de chambre (&?;) [F.], a body servant, or personal attendant.
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Val`e*tu`di*na"ri*an (?), a. [L. valetudinarius, from valetudo state of
health, health, ill health, fr. valere to be strong or well: cf. F.
valétudinaire. See Valiant.] Of infirm health; seeking to recover
health; sickly; weakly; infirm.
My feeble health and valetudinarian stomach.
Coleridge.
The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a
valetudinarian virtue.
Macaulay.
Val`e*tu`di*na"ri*an, n. A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one
who is seeking to recover health.
Valetudinarians must live where they can command and scold.
Swift.
Val`e*tu`di*na"ri*an*ism (?), n. The condition of a valetudinarian; a
state of feeble health; infirmity.
Val`e*tu"di*na*ry (?), a. Infirm; sickly; valetudinarian. —
Val`e*tu"di*na*ri*ness, n.
It renders the habit of society dangerously.
Burke.
Val`e*tu"di*na*ry, n. A valetudinarian.
Val`e*tu"di*nous (?), a. Valetudinarian. [Obs.] "The valetudinous
condition of King Edward." Fuller.
Val*hal"la (?), n. [Icel. valhöll, literally, hall of the slain; valr
the slain (akin to AS. wæl, OHG. wal battlefield, wuol defeat,
slaughter, AS. wl pestilence) + höll a royal hall. See Hall, and cf.
Walhalla.] [Written also walhalla.]
1. (Scand. Myth.) The palace of immortality, inhabited by the souls of
heroes slain in battle.
2. Fig.: A hall or temple adorned with statues and memorials of a
nation's heroes; specifically, the Pantheon near Ratisbon, in Bavaria,
consecrated to the illustrious dead of all Germany.
{ Val"iance (?), Val"ian*cy (?), } n. [Cf. F. vaillance. See Valiant.]
The quality or state of being valiant; bravery; valor. [Obs.] "His
doughty valiance." Spenser.
Val"iant (?), a. [OE. valiant, F. vaillant, OF. vaillant, valant,
originally p. pr. of OF. & F. valoir to be worth, L. valere to be
strong. See Wield, and cf. Avail, Convalesce, Equivalent, Prevail,
Valid.]
1. Vigorous in body; strong; powerful; as, a valiant fencer. [Obs.]
Walton.