Meaning of bivious | Babel Free

Definitions

Having, or leading, two ways.

rare

Examples

“If publique Aſſemblies of Divines cannot agree⟳ upon a right vvay, private Conventicles of illeterate men, vvill ſoon finde a vvrong. Bivious demurres breed⟳ devious reſolutions. Paſſengers to heaven are in haſte, and vvill vvalk one vvay or other.”

“Even ſtrange to tell⟳, / I now ſo clung an Individium was, / So fix⟳ at home, and yet ſo bivious / At the ſame time, and far abroad; […]”

“Pulchrellas breaſt encloſes / A ſoft Affection wrapt in Beds of Roſes. / But in the rare Pantheas noble lines, / Truth Worth and Honour, with Affection joynes. / I ſtand even-balanc'd, doubtfully oppreſt, / Beneathe the burthen of a bivious breaſt.”

“In bivious theorems, and Janus-faced doctrines, let⟳ Virtuous considerations state the determination. Look⟳ upon opinions as thou dost upon the moon, and choose⟳ not the dark hemisphere for thy contemplation.”

“The Caſtle of this Place⟳ was built in the Saxon Times,[…]: In the Area of it is an Entrance into a large Cave, or Vault, that runs under Ground ſeveral Perches, to a ſmall Portal or Door that opens into the Graſſe without the Caſtle. This Vault is bivious, and cut⟳ out of the Sand, ſeveral Paces broad, and 5 Yard high, at the End⟳ which opens into the Graſſe, or dry Ditch.”

“[…] Deuteronomy places the reader in a dilemma, a "bivious" position. He must choose⟳ between two ways that the text opens before him: "I have⟳ set⟳ before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose⟳ life, that both thou and thy seed may live⟳" (30:19). A treaty is a text that structures reality in a bivious form⟳.”

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