trivium
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The three arts of the trivium relate to the mind, and the four of the quadrivium to matter.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
She went on to write a PhD dissertation on the effect of formal rhetoric on Shakespeare’s language, and remained an evangelist for the use of the trivium in education.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
It taught the three arts, Latin grammar, rhetoric and dialectics, known as the trivium.
From Colleges in America by John Marshall Barker
The usual course of study in the universities was divided into what was known as the trivium and the quadrivium.
From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Philip Van Ness Myers
Early university studies were in two parts, the trivium —grammar, rhetoric, and logic, and the quadrivium— music, astronomy, geometry, and arithmetic.
From Old English Libraries by Ernest Albert Savage
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