trivium
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The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence.
The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.
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By the time of the medieval university system, knowledge was divided into the trivium —philosophy, including natural philosophy —and the quadrivium —mathematics, including astronomy.
I later befriended two Twitch associates, John Howell and Brandon Kaupert, and they invited me to the Twitch headquarters one day when Trivium was playing San Fransisco.
For the medieval student, the trivium was the curricular beginning of the acquisition of the seven liberal arts ; as such, it was the principal undergraduate course of study.
Megadeth: W/ Lamb of God, Trivium, In Flames, Sat., July 11, 6 p.m., $25-$99.50.
Marchand (1990), p. 45. He had a lifelong interest in the number three Gordon, p. 75 —the trivium, the Trinity —and sometimes said that the Virgin Mary provided intellectual guidance for him.
He did not study any subjects beyond the trivium and quadrivium at these schools.