Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The lower division of the seven liberal arts in medieval schools, consisting of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the schools of the middle ages, the first three liberal arts (grammar, rhetoric, and logic)—the other four (namely, arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy) being termed quadrivium.
- noun In echinoderms, as any sea-urchin, the three anterior ambulaera, taken collectively and distinguished from the two posterior ones taken together. See
bivium , and cut underSpatangoida .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The three “ liberal” arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence.
- noun (Zoöl.) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
lower division of theliberal arts ;grammar ,logic andrhetoric . - noun zoology The three anterior ambulacra of
echinoderms , collectively.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence
Etymologies
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Most important are those places located in the realm of the so-called trivium (i.e., grammar, rhetoric and logic), especially in logic where already the determination of its primary subject as well as the discussion of the basic logical notions
Medieval Semiotics Meier-Oeser, Stephan 2003
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Not only do his powers as they have been historically manifested form the subject of Renaissance thought, but there is much more persistent concern with the issues and limits of the new sciences and “arts” other than those previously known as the trivium and quadrivium.
WORK FELICE BATTAGLIA 1968
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Classical education uses a teaching method called the trivium, a three-part process of grammar, logic and rhetoric stages.
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There Alcuin taught the seven sciences of the "trivium" and "quadrivium", i.e. grammar, rhetoric, and logic, arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Note 2: The seven liberal arts consisted of the mathematical arts (the quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music) and the verbal arts (the trivium: grammar, dialectics, and rhetoric). back
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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The trivium these days is creativity, multiculturalism, and self-respect.
Refutation in verse 2010
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On this conception, the study of literature belonged to the trivium.
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In the medieval trivium, however, grammar did not include the study of morphology and syntax; it was what would now be called prescriptive grammar.
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The trivium usedta be teh three main branches of basic lurning: grammur, dialectic, and retoric.
Meow-mix - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I've read "Well-Trained Mind," which is about home-schooling kids in the trivium.
Abridge too far? Roger Sutton 2006
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