Crossword-Solution: TRIVIUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Trivium | n. | The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence. |
| Trivium | n. | The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “TRIVIUM”
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| Grammar, logic, and rhetoric. | 1 answer |
| PLACE where three ways meet | 1 answer |
| CAMBRIDGE University course (Eng.) | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
SRAODL
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Sentences with TRIVIUM (5)
See Bivious.] (Zo”l.) One side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambulacra.
The riddle of existence is the college curriculum that was laid before the Pharaohs, that was taught in the groves by Plato, that formed the _trivium_ and _quadrivium_, and is to-day laid before the freedmen’s sons by Atlanta University.
This was certainly in advance of the seven liberal arts which were studied in the old Cathedral schools,-- grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic (Trivium); and arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy (Quadrivium),--for only the elements of these were taught.
Early university studies were in two parts, the _trivium_--grammar, rhetoric, and logic, and the _quadrivium_--music, astronomy, geometry, and arithmetic.
The regular list of studies that came to be adopted everywhere comprised seven nominal branches, divided into two groups--the so-called quadrivium, comprising music, arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy; and the trivium comprising grammar, rhetoric, and logic.
Quotes with TRIVIUM (2)
I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit." The Humbug dropped his needle and stared in disbelief while Milo and Tock began to back away slowly. "Don't try to leave," he ordered, with a menacing sweep of his arm, "for there's so very much to do, and you still have over eight hundred years to go on the first job." "But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spen…
By the Middle Ages… the introduction of the Trivium was well-known: SÂDI, an educated black from Tombouctou, author of the well-known work entitled, ‘Tarikh es-Soudan’ cites amongst the subjects that he mastered, logic, dialection, grammar, rhetoric, not to mention law and other disciplines... the long lists of subjects studied and the lettered African intellectuals who taught them at the University of Tombouctou…
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