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
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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
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The schools were at first held publicly in shops; hence the name trivium.
From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)
Among the old Romans, a trivium meant a place where three ways met, and a quadrivium where four, or what we now call a cross-road.
From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.
For years it was practically all that was studied—for the medieval trivium of grammar, rhetoric and logic reduced itself to this—and they not only read a great deal but wrote and spoke Latin.
From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved