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
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 Savage, Ernest Albert
The regular list of studies that came to be adopted everywhere comprised seven nominal branches, divided into two groups—the so-called quadrivium, comprising music, arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy; and the trivium comprising grammar, rhetoric, and logic.
From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Williams, Henry Smith
It taught the three arts, Latin grammar, rhetoric and dialectics, known as the trivium.
From Colleges in America by Barker, John Marshall
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