invious

English

Etymology

From Latin invius, from in- (“not”) + via (“way”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnviəs/

Adjective

invious (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, poetic) untrodden
   • 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:

     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?

2. (obsolete, poetic) impassable

References

“invious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.