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.
1622. Mabbe, trans. 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.
