~ VAIL    id+ | PROFIT as in AVAIL |  see> VALOR
^u        id+ | may imply TIP or      see> VALUE
                TO LET FALL |         see> FAIL
~ VAIN    id+ |  FUTILE as ALL BEAUTY IS TEMPORARY |
~ VALE           lat GOODBYE
                 sp  AGREE or OK
~ VALEDICTORIAN  id+ | HIGHEST RANKING |  sug> MERIT
~ VALENCE        sc> in modern terms it denotes
             "OXIDATION NUMBER"  put more simply
             VALUE IN TERMS OF ENERGY CHARGE
             biol> NUMBER OF BINDING SITES
~ VALENCY    STRENGTH
~ VALENTINE  SAINT VALENTINE or   sug> IDOL
             ST VALENTINE DAY     sug> RELIC
             relates to           sug> RELIGION
             myth> THE FEAST OF   see> LUPERCALIA
                   more below
~ VALERIANA  med> PLANT FORMERLY USED FOR THE
                  TREATMENT OF HYSTERIA
     biol> TINCTURE FROM DRIED
           ROOTS AND RHIZOME OF
           VALERIANA PLANTS ARE CONSIDERED TO HAVE
           ANTISPASMODIC PROPERTIES
~ VALET    SERVANT  GROOM  former " YE O MAN "
~ VALIANT  STRONG  BRAVE  WITH VALOR  BRAVE  COURAGEOUS
           diametrical to COWARD see> for more
     lit+ "THE COWARD DIES MANY TIMES
           THE VALIANT TASTE OF DEATH BUT ONCE"
           from Julius CAESAR per SHAKESPEARE [#]
~ VALID    STRONG  from lat VALIDUS = STRONG
~ VALINE   biol> med> ONE OF THE ESSENTIAL AMINO ACIDS
           note ESSENTIAL implies NEEDED FOR GROWTH
~ VALOR  in sp for COURAGE  DARING as in VALIANT
         in eng the IDEA in VALOR is MATERIALISTIC
         HAVING TO DO WITH PRICE or
~ VALUE  id+ | WORTH |  QUALITY  STRENGTH
         PRICE and COST enter in
  mercantile computations of VALUE
  see> MONETA the Goddess of see> MONEY
  ukr VALUTA  = MONEY
      VARTE     VALUE                 sug> CURRENT
  sp  VALE      COST also VALID       sug> CORRECT
                as in PASS  TICKET    sug> VALID
      VALOR     COURAGE or PRICE      sug> VALUABLE
      VALENTIA  BRAVERY  VALOR        sug> COURAGE
                FORTITUDE  HEROISM    sug> BOLDNESS
     AVAL       ASSURANCE WARRANTY    sug> INSURER
                ENDORSER              sug> DORSAL
     AVALUO     APPRAISAL             sug> ASSESSMENT
  lat UALLIS    TO ROLL               sug> CURRENCY
      UALERE    STRONG                sug> SURE
      VALERE    STRONG                sug> SECURE
  myth> ST VALENTINE FEAST or LOVE FEAST
        IS CELEBRATED DURING FEBRUARY 14TH
  THE SAME DATE WHEN LUPERCALIA WAS CELEBRATED
  THE SHIFT REPRESENTS AN EFFORT BY THE
  CHRISTIAN ROMAN CHURCH TO TRANSFORM A
  POPULAR PAGAN FEAST OF LOVE AND FECUNDITY
  HONORING JUNO and PAN INTO A CHRISTIAN VARIANT
  hx> MANY ARE OF THE VIEW THAT ST VALENTINE
      DID NOT EXIST
  AS CHRISTIAN CHURCHES FAILED TO WEAKEN
  THE GRIP OF LUPERCALIA ON FEBRUARY 14TH WHICH
  COINCIDED WITH THE SPRING SEASON or
  "WHEN THE BIRDS BEGIN THEIR LOVE or AMOROUS SONGS"
  THE CHURCH CO-OPTED THIS DATE AND CHOSE TO
  REMEMBER A MYTHIC SAINT VALENTINE WHO
  IT IS CLAIMED BROKE ROMAN LAW BY
  CELEBRATING RELIGIOUS MARRIAGES
  {note THE ROMAN CHURCH RESISTED THE
        INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE BECAUSE OF
  A STRONG AND CHRONIC ANTIPATHY
  TO CARNAL LOVE}
  SOME ASSERT THAT ST VALENTINE
  WAS CLUBBED TO DEATH AND DECAPITATED
  DURING THE REIGN OF ROME BY
  CLAUDE II "THE CRUEL"
  PRECISELY ON FEBRUARY 14 269 AD
  note SIMILAR TACTICS BY CHRISTIAN CHURCHES
       TO BLUNT THE POPULARITY OF
  MYTHRAISM                    see> MITHRA
  THEN A PREVALENT RELIGION    see> MITRAL
  THE CHURCH DECLARED ARBITRARILY THAT THE
  BIRTH DATE OF MITHRA ON DECEMBER 25TH
  WAS THE BIRTH DAY OF CHRIST BIRTHDAY
  hx> IN ROME FEBRUARY 14TH WAS THE DATE
      TO CELEBRATE LOVE AND THE DAY
  REMINDED CELEBRANTS THAT THE BIRDS
  WERE STARTING THEIR EARLY
  SPRING LOVE SONGS AND COURTSHIPS
  THE LATIN MOTE WAS "VALE"   sug> VALUE
  conveying the idea "TAKE GOOD CARE"
  note THAT IN ENGLAND
       IN THE VILLAGE ROQUE MOURE or
  "LANDAAD" EMERGED A CUSTOM FOR CELEBRANTS
  TO DRAW A NAME AND TO GIVE THE CHOSEN PERSON
  A PRESENT
  note other claims such as
       that upon the return of
  CHARLES OF ORLEANS (15TH CENTURY) from a 25
  year imprisonment in England
  HE ESTABLISHED A CUSTOM
  OF SENDING LOVE MESSAGES
  note HOW IN THE 1970'S
       THE FRENCH VILLAGE OF ROQUEMARQUE LOCATED ON
  THE RIGHT BANK OF THE RIVER RHONE
  IN THE REGION OF SOUTHERN LANGUEDOC ROUSILLON
  ORGANIZED A "FETE DU BAISER" or KISSING FEAST
  IN HONOR OF ST VALENTINE AS A WAY TO
  ATTRACTS MANY TOURISTS
  furthermore ROQUEMARQUE VILLAGERS CLAIMED THAT
              A LOCAL RICH FARMER WENT TO ROME
  AND PURCHASED RELICS THAT HAPPENED TO
  REPRESENT ST VALENTINE
  UPON HIS RETURN WITH THE RELICS IS CLAIMED TO
  HAVE "CURED" A BLIGHT AFFLICTING LOCAL GRAPE VINES
  note others claim that in 1865
       a PRUSSIAN named
  VON STEPHAN PRODUCED THE FIRST COMMERCIAL
  ST VALENTINE POSTCARD     sug> MERCANTILE
  in any case THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF
  ST VALENTINE AT LEAST IN THE USA
  IS EXTREME
  note links of VALE with
       AVAIL  AVAILABLE  PREVAIL
       VAIL  VALLEY  AVALANCY
  EVALUATE  DEVALUE  INVALID
  AMBIVALENT VALOR VALENTINE VALERIC
  VALIDITY  WIELDY  REVALIDATE  REVALORIZE
  CONVALESCENCE  PREVALENCE  VALEDICTORY
  see> LUPERCALIA

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