Thesaurus: trivium
The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence.
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- n. The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence.
- n. The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.
- n. (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence
- 1. The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence. Note: The trivium and quadrivium together made up the seven liberal arts. See Quadrivium. 2. (Zoöl.) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.
- n. (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence