Meanings
- not comparableobsoletepoeticuntrodden
If nothing can oppugne love, And virtue invious ways can prove, What may not he confide to do That brings both love and virtue too?
1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC - not comparableobsoletepoeticimpassable
Origin
- Latininvius
- Englishinvious
From Latin invius, from in- (“not”) + via (“way”).
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