Crossword-Solution: QUADRIVIUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Quadrivium | n. | The four "liberal arts," arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium. |
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| CAMBRIDGE University course (Eng.) | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with QUADRIVIUM (5)
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.
The princess was conversant with the artful dialogues of Plato; and had studied quadrivium of astrology, geometry, arithmetic, and music, (see he preface to the Alexiad, with Ducange’s notes)] In our modern education, the painful though necessary attainment of two languages, which are no longer living, may consume the time and damp the ardor of the youthful student.
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.