trivant
dial. var. truant. Hence (nonce-wds.) trivanting a., playing the truant; † trivantly a. or adv., ? idle or idly.
| 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. xv. 181 These men..cannot distinguish betwixt a true Schollar, and..him that by reason of a voluble tongue, and some triuantly [ed. 1624 adds Polyanthean] helps, steales and gleanes a few notes from other mens haruests. 1624 Ibid. Democr. to Rdr. (ed. 2) 8 A trifler, a triuant, thou art an idle fellow. 1851–85 Trivant, trivent in Eng. Dial. Dict. from Chesh., Leic., Northants., and Oxf. [1863 Sala Capt. Dangerous I. iv. 90 Those trifling and trivanting gentlewomen that pull diseases on to their pates with drums and routs, and late hours.] |