invalid chair

A chair capable of a uming and retaining any required position from the erect to the prone. In-va-lîd', v . t . & i. [INVALID, a .] A. Transitive : 1. To affect with disease or illne ; to render an invalid. "Drawing the invalided stroller's arm through his."Dickens: Pickwick , ch. xlv. 2. To register as an invalid; to insert in the list of persons unfit for military or naval duty; to give leave of absence from duty on account of illne or ill health. B. In trans.: To consent to be placed on the list of invalids. In-văl-i-date, v . t . [Eng. invalid ; -ate ; Fr. in valider ; Sp. invalidar ; Ital. invalid are .] To make invalid or not valid; to weaken, le en, or destroy the validity or force of; to render of no effect or force; to overthrow. "Argument is to be invalidated only by argument, and is in itself of the same force, whether or not it convinces him by whom it is proposed."- Rambler , No. 14. in-văl-i-da-tion, s. [INVALIDATE.] The state of invalidating or rendering invalid; the state of being invalidated. "So many invalidations of their rights."- Burke : Powers of Juries. In-va-lîd-Işm, s. [English invalid ; -ism .] The quality or state of being an invalid; sickne , ill health. In va-lid-1-ty, s. [Fr. invalid ité , from Latin invaliditatem , acc us. of invalid it as , from invalid us =not strong, invalid q. v.).] 1. Want of validity, legal force, or efficacy; want of cogency. "I'll show the invalidity of their objection."-Glanvill: Pre-existence of Souls, ch. iv. 2. Want of bodily health or strength; infirmity. "He ordered that none who could work should be idle; and that none who could not work, by age, weakne , or invalidity , should want."- Temple .