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  • noun Plural form of quadrivial.

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  • After this, providing you with the fourfold wings of the quadrivials that ye might be winged like the seraphs and so mount above the cherubim, we sent you to a friend at whose door, if only ye importunately knocked, ye might borrow the three loaves of the

    The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury 2007

  • Wolf-hall in Wilts, knight, was educated in trivials, and partly in quadrivials for some time in this university.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • After this, providing you with the fourfold wings of the quadrivials that ye might be winged like the seraphs and so mount above the cherubim, we sent you to a friend at whose door, if only ye importunately knocked, ye might borrow the three loaves of the Knowledge of the Trinity, in which consists the final felicity of every sojourner below.

    The Love of Books: the Philobiblon of Richard de Bury 1345

  • After this, providing you with the fourfold wings of the quadrivials that ye might be winged like the seraphs and so mount above the cherubim, we sent you to a friend at whose door, if only ye importunately knocked, ye might borrow the three loaves of the Knowledge of the Trinity, in which consists the final felicity of every sojourner below.

    The Love of Books The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury Richard de Bury 1316

  • And for the other lectures, as of philosophy, logic, rhetoric, and the quadrivials (although the latter,

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

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