trivium
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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
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
The schools were at first held publicly in shops; hence the name trivium.
From Pedagogics as a System by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett
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 Albert G. Mackey
So that so far as Europe goes, one may very well regard this modern modern-language teaching as—with the modern mathematics—an extension of the trivium, of the apparatus, that is, of thought and expression.
From Mankind in the Making by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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