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trivium
/ˈtɹɪviəm/
noun 2
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5ADJ.
dialectic
VERB + TRIVIUM
learned, went
TRIVIUM + NOUN
grammar, rhetoric
PREP.
through, without
ADV.
thus
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noun
1
The lower division of the liberal arts in a medieval university; grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
Surely some demon must possess the lad, / Who showed more wit than ever school-boy had, / And learned his Trivium thus without the rod; / But Alcuin said it was the grace of God.
As to the nature of his studies, there can be no doubt that he [Dante] went through the trivium (grammar, dialectic, rhetoric) and the quadrivium (arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy) of the then ordinary university course.
2
The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.
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Surely some demon must possess the lad, / Who showed more wit than ever school-boy had, / And learned his Trivium thus without the rod; / But Alcuin said it was the grace of God.
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As to the nature of his studies, there can be no doubt that he [Dante] went through the trivium (grammar, dialectic, rhetoric) and the quadrivium (arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy) of the th
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We find in a broad survey of schools in general that there has also been a disposition to develop a special training in thought and expression either in the mother tongue (as in the Roman schools of L
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