▪ I.bidental,a.|baɪˈdɛntəl|[f.L. bident-em(seeprec.)+ -al¹.]‘Belonging to a Fork, or Instrument with two teeth.’ Bullokar, 1676.▪ II.‖biˈdental,n.Rom.Antiq.[L. bidental,f.bident-em(seebident), according to some called from the forked lightning(seebidental=fulmen bifidum in Du Cange), according to others from the bidens or sheep sacrificed at its consecration.]A place struck by lightning, consecrated by the haruspices, and enclosed. Also fig.1692Coles,Bidental..also a place where sheep were sacrificed.1753ChambersCycl.Supp.s.v.,Festus represents the bidental as a temple, where sheep of two years old were offered in sacrifice.1794MathiasPurs.Lit.(1798) 29,I would only set up the bidental at the bookseller's door at Wimbledon.1873BlackmoreCradock N. xxvii,The scene of his ruin and despair,—the ‘bidental’ of his destiny.