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English
Etymology
From Latin invius, from in- (“not”) + via (“way”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
invious (not comparable)
- (obsolete, poetic) untrodden
1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “”, 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: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?
- (obsolete, poetic) impassable
References
“invious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.