a. [f. L. bivi-us having two ways or passages (f. bi- two + via way) + -OUS.] ‘That leadeth (two) different ways’ (T.); having or offering two ways or courses.
a. 1644. Quarles, Virgin Wid., III. i. I stand even balanc’d Beneath the burden of a bivious brest.
1682. Sir T. Browne, Chr. Mor. (1756), 86. In bivious theorems … let virtuous considerations state the determination.
a. 1697. Aubrey, Surrey (1718), IV. 189. This Vault is bivious, and cut out of the Sand.
