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VALENTINIAN.
1851 Meredith Pastorals^ Poems 104 Shall the birds in
vain then valentine their sweethearts? 1885 — Thrush in
Feb. i, I know him, February's thrush, And loud at eve he
valentines.
2. intr. (See quots.) dial.
1854 Miss Baker Northampt, Gloss. 373 Valentining,
children going from house to house, the morning of St.
Valentine's day, soliciting small gratuities. 1864 Children's
Prize Feb. 22 'Ihe little fellow had cried bitterly till she had
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given him leave to go Valcntining
Valentinian
(vselenti'nian), so. and a. Also
7 -ean. [See def.]
A. sb. A follower of the Egyptian theologian
Valentinus (fl. c 150), founder of a Gnostic sect.
c 1449 Pecock Repr. v, iiL 497 The sect of Valentynyanys,
whiche hclden that Crist took no thing of Maries bodL
1565 Stapleton tr. Staphylus' Apot. 168 b, The conflictes
of Irenee with the Valentinians. 1579 Fulke Heskins' Pari.
2 As the olde Heretiques the Valentinians did. x6i6
BuLLOKAR En^. Expos., Valentiniafis^ certaine heretikes
. .who held opinion that our Sauiour receiued not his flesh
of the blessed virgin Mary. 170a tr. Le Clere's Prim.
Fathers 15 The Valentinians .. learned what they said concerning
the Generation of their /Eones, of Hesiod. 1788
Gibbon Decl. cd by mineral acids,
Valereue. Chem, [f. as prec + -ene.] (See
quots.)
18^ W. Gregory Handbk. Org. Ckem. 337 Valerenc.is
obtained as one of the products of the action of zinc on
iodide of amyle. 1863 Watts Diet. Chem, I. 626 Borneene.
VaUrene. Ci'H".—A liquid hydrocarbon, isomeric with oil
of turpentine.
Valereus, obs. Sc. f. Valobous a.
Valerian (van»rian). Also 4-5 valirian^ 5
valariau, 5-6 valeryan(e, 6 valeriane. [ad. OF.
valeriafte (mod.F. valeriane) or med.L. Valeriana
(also It,, Sp., and Pg.% app. the fem. sing, of the
L.adj. ValerianuSti. the personal name Valerius.']
1. One or other of the various species of herbaceous
plants belonging to the widely-distributed
genus l/aleriana, many of which have been used
medicinally as stimulants or antispasmodics.
c 1386 Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol.