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Webster 1913 Edition


Trivium

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Triv′i-um

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Noun.
[LL. See
Trivial
.]
1.
The three “ liberal” arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; – being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence.
☞ The trivium and quadrivium together made up the seven liberal arts. See
Quadrivium
.
2.
(Zool.)
The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.