a. Obs. [f. L. valid-us VALID a. + -OUS.] Valid, in various senses.
1603. Harsnet, Pop. Impost., 98. Because the Consequence is so Validous wee will looke a little into these holy fireworks. Ibid., 100. This ranke savor was so Validous and strong that it sented through the glasse.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. viii. § 37. 553. The other [side urged] against Norwich, that no second election could be validous, vnlesse the former were first annulled.
1635. R. N., trans. Camden’s Hist. Eliz., Introd. In the first Parliament which Queene Mary held … the marriage … was judged to be … validous and available.
