quadrivial

• The last of the quadrivial subjects, —  The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization
• Aeneas and Dido (_Erec_, l. 5337); or when, in the same book, Erec's coronation mantle, though it is fairy work, bears no embroidered designs of Broceliande or Avalon, but four allegorical figures of the quadrivial sciences, with a reference by Chrestien to Macrobius as his authority in describing them. —  Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
• It is the body of which roads are the arms and legs -- a trivial or quadrivial place, the thoroughfare and ordinary of travellers. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
• It is the body of which roads are the arms and legs, -- a trivial or quadrivial place, the thoroughfare and ordinary of travellers. —  Excursions
• It would have had its _trivial_ and its _quadrivial_ schools; its occupation would have been research, experiment, or investigation; in a word, its whole features would have been colored by a grammatical, a rhetorical, or a mathematical cast, accordingly as it should have been derived from a sect in which any one of these three characteristics was the predominating influence. —  The Symbolism of Freemasonry

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