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Meaning of "quadrivial" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF QUADRIVIAL

kwɒˈdrɪvɪəl


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF QUADRIVIAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Quadrivial is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES QUADRIVIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Quadrivium

The quadrivium are the four subjects, or arts, taught after teaching the trivium. The word is Latin, meaning "the four ways", and its use for the four subjects has been attributed to Boethius or Cassiodorus in the 6th century. Together, the trivium and the quadrivium comprised the seven liberal arts, as opposed to the practical arts. The quadrivium consisted of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. These followed the preparatory work of the trivium made up of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. In turn, the quadrivium was considered preparatory work for the serious study of philosophy and theology. The word "trivia" has been rarely used to refer to the trivium.

Definition of quadrivial in the English dictionary

The first definition of quadrivial in the dictionary is having or consisting of four roads meeting at a point. Other definition of quadrivial is going in four directions. Quadrivial is also of or relating to the quadrivium.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH QUADRIVIAL

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE QUADRIVIAL

quadrillionth · quadrilocular · quadringenary · quadrinomial · quadripartite · quadripartition · quadriphonic · quadriplegia · quadriplegic · quadripole · quadrireme · quadrisect · quadrisection · quadrisyllabic · quadrisyllable · quadrivalence · quadrivalency · quadrivalent · quadrivia · quadrivium

WORDS THAT END LIKE QUADRIVIAL

antediluvial · commercial · editorial · effluvial · especial · essential · exuvial · facial · false gavial · financial · industrial · ingluvial · initial · interpluvial · isopluvial · khedivial · material · memorial · official · vial

Synonyms and antonyms of quadrivial in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «quadrivial» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF QUADRIVIAL

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The translations of quadrivial from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «quadrivial» in English.
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四岔
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quadrivial
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quadrivial
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quadrivial
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quadrivial
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quadrivial
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quadrivial
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quadrivial
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quadrivial
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Kuadratik
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quadrivial
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quadrivial
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quadrivial
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Quadrivial
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quadrivial
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quadrivial
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चौधरी
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quadrivial
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quadrivial
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quadrivial
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quadrivial
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quadrivial
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quadrivial
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quadrivial
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quadrivial
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Trends of use of quadrivial

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «QUADRIVIAL»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about quadrivial

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUADRIVIAL»

Discover the use of quadrivial in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to quadrivial and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe: ...
Quadrivial. pursuits. That there was a general reorganization of education and its disciplinary divisions from the late Middle Ages into the period we now call the ' Renaissance' has long been a historiographical commonplace, although the ...
Timothy J. Reiss, 1997
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Descriptions
As thus used it is called logic or dialectic. Arts or techniques of language of these three primary kinds (material, operative, and productive) are the arts of the trivium : grammar, rhetoric, and logic. The quadrivial arts (arithmetic, geometry, music, ...
Don Ihde, Hugh J. Silverman, 1985
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Musica Naturalis: Speculative Music Theory and Poetics, from ...
In fact, Bacon conceives the trivium as the usus of the knowledge first acquired in the quadrivial disciplines as insight into the natura and proand thus postulates a factual relation prietas of the subjects in question,421 between the trivial and ...
Philipp Jeserich, 2013
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Medicine and the Reformation
Yet there is ample evidence that medics educated at Paris or Montpellier actively used medical astrology.7 Although statutory prescriptions may not have offered sufficient training in astrology, the study of quadrivial arts again seems to have ...
Andrew Cunningham, Ole Peter Grell, 2013
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A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages
Because so many of Boethius's works were so widely read as textbooks for so many years, these ideas shaped the thinking of many people who were not specialists in quadrivial fields, or who were not scholars at all. Finally, it is important to ...
Noel Harold Kaylor, Philip Edward Phillips, 2012
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Mathematical Theologies: Nicholas of Cusa and the Legacy of ...
Führer, “Evolution of the Quadrivial Modes,” 334. On the quadrivium in Cusanus, see Schulze, Zahl, Proportion, Analogie, 93–121; and Schulze, Harmonik und Theologie, 27–32, 69–76. In opposition to my interpretation, Vengeon envisions a ...
David Albertson, 2014
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Philosophy and the Liberal Arts
cording to Ballard, the quadrivial arts are not unique, nor are they privileged with regard to the arts of the trivium; rather, they are correctly understood as mirroring the three basic arts in the fields of mathematics and science. Arithmetic and ...
E.G. Ballard, 1989
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The Diaries of Northrop Frye, 1942-1955
are, V [Mirage], a quadrivial logic or geometry, concerned more deeply with the diagrammatic basis of thinking, h [Paradox], a quadrivial rhetoric or astronomy doing a real "comparative religion" job & 1 [Ignoramus], a quadrivial grammar or ...
Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham, 2001
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Reading Cusanus: Metaphor and Dialectic in a Conjectural ...
Even so, each quadrivial art falls short of finding the exact combinations and proportions in the things God has created. In Book 1 Nicholas asserted that learned ignorance recognized no proportion between finite and infinite. Here he extends ...
Clyde Lee Miller, 2003
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The Philosophers' Game: Rithmomachia in Medieval and ...
This weakness has led some scholars to question how compulsory this teaching was, and consequently how thoroughly it reached a broad student body there.94 Quadrivial subjects fell among those traditionally taught on feast days, and their ...
Ann Elizabeth Moyer, William Fulke, 2001

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «QUADRIVIAL»

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Arsenal Player Ratings Against Newcastle United – Outstanding …
So, it happened once again! Yes, you got that one correct! Arsenal ended the game against Newcastle with yet another quadrivial, post their 1-4 triumph against ... «Soccersouls, Dec 14»
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Martin Luther, music, and the Seven Liberal Arts
The Quadrivial (or four-fold) Arts taught the mechanics of mathematics and physics, through the study of Arithmetic, Geometry, Astrology, and Music. Together ... «OUPblog, Feb 14»
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Michel van der Aa, International Contemporary Ensemble offer …
In “Quadrivial” (1997) for flute (the agile Eric Lamb), violin, cello and piano, pianist Jacob Greenberg, armed with a set of drumsticks that he rattled around on the ... «Washington Post, May 12»
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“Walking” by Henry David Thoreau
It is the body of which roads are the arms and legs—a trivial or quadrivial place, the thoroughfare and ordinary of travelers. The word is from the Latin villa which ... «National Geographic, Nov 11»
REFERENCE
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