Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Going in four directions.

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Examples

  • Margaret quickened her steps; but Denys took down his crossbow and pretended to shoot them all dead: they fled quadrivious, shrieking.

    The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849

  • When the cheese was so rotten with them that only the twigs and string kept it from tumbling to pieces and walking off quadrivious, it came to table.

    The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849

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