a. [f. L. lūbric-us LUBRIC + -IOUS.] = LUBRICOUS, in various senses.

1

1583.  Stubbes, Anat. Abus., I. (1879), 71, margin. Womens lubricious minds neuer content with any thinge when it is well.

2

1656.  Blount, Glossogr. [see LUBRICAL].

3

1698.  R. Ferguson, View Eccles., 93. How Lubricious a Friend and Changeable a Partizan he will be to any Soveraign.

4

1706.  Phillips (ed. Kersey), Lubricious, slippery, uncertain. unconclusive, as A lubricious Hope, a lubricious Argument.

5

1884.  C. Reade, in Contemp. Rev., May, 711. He deserted pure for lubricious morality.

6

  Hence † Lubriciousness rare–0.

7

1731.  In Bailey, vol. II.

8