quadrivium

• The preliminary training that is the undergraduate work at the universities consisted of the Seven Liberal Arts--the trivium and quadrivium, which embraced logic, rhetoric, grammar, metaphysics, under which was included not a little of physics, cosmology in which some biology was studied, as well as psychology and mathematics, astronomy, and music. —  Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
• This, together with the trivium_, or preparatory group of three subjects--Grammar, Rhetoric, and Logic--constituted what was known as the seven liberal arts_; but, in the darkest ages, the quadrivium was almost lost sight of, and few went beyond the trivium EVE OF THE UNIVERSITY In the 7th century, the era of deepest intellectual gloom, philosophy was at an entire stand-still. —  Practical Essays
• The beauty and glory of it is yn two streetes, whereof the hye street goes from est to west, having a righte goodely crosse in the middle of it, making a quadrivium, and goeth from north to south." —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 357, February 21, 1829
• When, for instance, Giraut de Bornelli is said to have gone to "school" during the winter seasons, nothing more is meant than the pursuit of the trivium and quadrivium, the seven arts, which formed the usual subjects of instruction. —  The Troubadours
• Besides, to use the words of a learned and amusing writer, it is well known that "music constituted a part of the quadrivium, a branch of their system of education, and it was more or less cultivated by persons of all conditions;"--churchmen studied it by profession; and the students at the Inns of Court learned singing and all kinds of music. —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 570, October 13, 1832

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