Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having four ways meeting in a point; leading in four directions.
- Belonging to the quadrivium: thus, quadrivial astrology is astrology in the sense in which astrology is a branch of the quadrivium — that is, astronomy.
- n. One of the four arts constituting the quadrivium.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having four ways meeting in a point.
- n. One of the four “liberal arts” making up the quadrivium.
Examples
“His part on logic reproduces Blemmydes™ Epitome logica with some additions; his part on natural philosophy combines works by Blemmydes with works by Pachymeres and Michael of Ephesus; his part on the quadrivial disciplines is identical with the Logic and Quadrivium by the anonymous of 1007.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It is the body of which roads are the arms and legs -- a trivial or quadrivial place, the thoroughfare and ordinary of travellers.”
“It is the body of which roads are the arms and legs, a trivial or quadrivial place, the thoroughfare and ordinary of travelers.”
“It is the body of which roads are the arms and legsa trivial or quadrivial place, the thoroughfare and ordinary of travellers.”
“It is the body of which roads are the arms and legs — a trivial or quadrivial place, the thoroughfare and ordinary of travelers.”
“It is the body of which roads are the arms and legs, -- a trivial or quadrivial place, the thoroughfare and ordinary of travellers.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘quadrivial’.
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Q words
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quire, quais, quai, queer, quoit, quitrent, quit, quipster, question, quest, questing, quests and 208 more...
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Words
phantasmagoria, eviscerate, avast, simulacrum, varicose, oblique, gestalt, ersatz, vernal, vivace, stellate, synecdoche and 314 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7762 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Better Words
Extremely fond of adjectives. To conquer phlegmatic speech and indolent phrases.
auric, hemispherical, quadrivial, adumbral, weighty, deuced, aliquot, commendable, anterior, osculant, ferly, enceinte and 26 more...
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Quantum...Qualtum
words of the Qn & Ql ...words of the near, pfearless future
quaich, quadrivial, quagga, quair, quaestor, quaigh, quaked, qualmn, qualming, quantong, quantal, qualtal and 19 more...
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Wunderkammer
A not-so-secret cache of wonderfilled words; may be mythical, magical, philosophical, oddball or just plain cool
thaumazein, anacampserote, cledonism, mirabile dictu, limen, sough, amaranthine, anamorphosis, lyribliring, lubberland, luciferous, madstone and 31 more...

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