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† briviˈatic, a. Obs. rare.
[According to a note to the first quot. f. OSp. brivion (Sp. bribon) ‘a loytring fellow that will not worke, but goe from Town to Town, from house to house, to begge a piece of bread and a Dish of drinke’. See bribe.]
Of vagrants or mendicants.
1623Mabbe Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. 190 She made me study the Briviatick Art. Ibid. ii. 95 Themselues with their breviaticke Art may lie wallowing in the durt. |