Sentence example with the word 'trivium'

trivium

Definition n. (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric

Last update: October 6, 2015


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His pupil Richer has left us a detailed account of his system of teaching at Reims. So far as the trivium is concerned, his text-books were Victorinus's translation of Porphyry's Isagoge, Aristotle's Categories, and Cicero's Topics with Manlius's Commentaries.   [Please select]

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This was certainly in advance of the seven liberal arts which were studied in the old Cathedral schools,--grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic (Trivium); and arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy (Quadrivium),--for only the elements of these were taught.   [Please select]

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