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QUADRIVIUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("quadrivium" is a kind of...):
arts; humanistic discipline; humanities; liberal arts (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills))
Domain category:
Dark Ages; Middle Ages (the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance)