NOUN
- (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence
How To Use trivium In A Sentence
- In medieval terms, the Platonic approach locates music in the quadrivium, as a branch of mathematics, while the Aristotelian locates it with the practical arts of the trivium, grammar, rhetoric, and logic.
- There Alcuin taught the seven sciences of the "trivium" and "quadrivium", i.e. grammar, rhetoric, and logic, arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
- His initial studies covered the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
- In the Middle Ages, it was the trivium and the quadrivium. Times, Sunday Times
- And yet our curricula still reflect the priorities of the 1893 Committee of Ten, if not the shadows of the medieval trivium and quadrivium.
- The trivium consisted of grammar, logic and rhetoric, the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music.
- On this conception, the study of literature belonged to the trivium. Literature: the very idea
- 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. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science
- Most important are those places located in the realm of the so-called trivium (i.e., grammar, rhetoric and logic), especially in logic where already the determination of its primary subject as well as the discussion of the basic logical notions Medieval Semiotics
- I've read "Well-Trained Mind," which is about home-schooling kids in the trivium. Abridge too far?
