a. Obs. [f. BRIBER + -OUS.]
a. Rascally, thievish, given to taking bribes. b. Of the nature of a bribe, corrupt.
1534. Whitinton, Tullyes Offyces, II. (1540), 84. Such bryberous rewardes promessed.
c. 1550. Hye way Spyttel Ho., 387, in Hazl., E. P. P., IV. 44. I meane these bawdy brybrous knaves, That lodgeth them that so powles and shaves.
1604–14. S. Grahame, in Farr, S. P. Jas. I. (1848), 26. The brib’rous minde who makes a god of gould.
