Definitions for quadrivial
kwɒˈdrɪv i əlquadriv·ial

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1. quadrivialnoun

   Any of the four "liberal arts" making up the quadrivium.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Quadrivialadjective

   Having four ways meeting in a point.

   Etymology: quadrivium, Lat.

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1. quadrivial

   From the time of Plato through the Middle Ages, the quadrivium (plural: quadrivia) was a grouping of four subjects or arts—arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy—that formed a second curricular stage following preparatory work in the trivium, consisting of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Together, the trivium and the quadrivium comprised the seven liberal arts, and formed the basis of a liberal arts education in Western society until gradually displaced as a curricular structure by the studia humanitas and its later offshoots, beginning with Petrarch in the 14th century. The seven classical arts were considered "thinking skills" and were distinguished from practical arts, such as medicine and architecture. The quadrivium, Latin for 'four ways', and its use for the four subjects have been attributed to Boethius—who likely coined the term. It was considered the foundation for the study of philosophy (sometimes called the "liberal art par excellence") and theology. The quadrivium was the upper division of the medieval education in the liberal arts, which comprised arithmetic (number in the abstract), geometry (number in space), music (number in time), and astronomy (number in space and time). Educationally, the trivium and the quadrivium imparted to the student the seven essential thinking skills of classical antiquity. Altogether the Seven Liberal Arts belonged to the so-called 'Low Faculty' (of Arts), whereas Medicine, Jurisprudence (Law), and Theology were established in the three so-called 'High' faculties. Thereby it was quite common in the middle ages that the lecturers in the Low Faculty (for trivium and/or quadrivium) to be students themselves in one of the High faculties. Philosophy was typically not a subject (nor faculty) in its own right, but was rather present implicitly as an 'auxiliary tool' within the discourses of the High faculties (especially theology); the complete emancipation of philosophy from theology happened only after the Medieval era.Displacement of the quadrivium by other curricular approaches from the time of Petrarch gained momentum with the subsequent Renaissance emphasis on what became the modern humanities, one of four liberal arts of the modern era, alongside natural science (where much of the actual subject matter of the original quadrivium now resides), social science, and the arts; though it may appear that music in the quadrivium would be a modern branch of performing arts, it was then an abstract system of proportions that was carefully studied at a distance from actual musical practice, and effectively a branch of music theory more tightly bound to arithmetic than to musical expression.

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1. Quadrivialadjective

   having four ways meeting in a point

2. Quadrivialnoun

   one of the four "liberal arts" making up the quadrivium

3. Etymology: [L. quadrivium a place where four ways meet; quattuor four + via way.]

How to pronounce quadrivial?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of quadrivial in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of quadrivial in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Quadrivial
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=quadrivial
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrivial
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quadrivial