a. Obs. rare. [f. JAN-US + -IAN.] Janus-like; two-faced.
1598. Marston, Pygmal., i. Wks. (1764), 137. Yee vizarded-bifronted-Ianian rout.
So Janiform a. (erron. Januform.)
1814. Syd. Smith, To Jeffrey, Mem. 1855, II. 115. The statue was to be Januform, with Playfair’s face on one side and Stewart’s on the other.
1892. W. Ridgeway, Orig. Metallic Currency, 318. The Janiform head, male and female, on the obverse of the coins of Tenedos.
