单词 | trivium |
释义 | triviumn. 1. In the Middle Ages, the lower division of the seven liberal arts, comprising grammar, rhetoric, and logic. (Cf. quadrivium n.) ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] > a department of study > arts > trivium trivial?a1475 trivials1481 trivium1804 1804 A. Ranken Hist. France III. iv. 308 They included all learning in the seven liberal arts; of which grammar, rhetoric, and dialectics, formed what they called Trivium. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. i. 4 The trivium and quadrivium, a course of seven sciences, introduced in the sixth century. 1886 S. S. Laurie Rise Universities 64 The..instruction given by Gerbert at Rheims about 1000 a.d. seems to have been simply a full and extended trivium. 2. Zoology. The three anterior ambulacra of an echinoderm. (Cf. bivium n.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > member of > parts of > ambulacrum > three anterior ambulacra trivium1870 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 142 To divide the five rays [in Asterias] into a ‘bivium’, between which the madreporic tubercle lies, and a ‘trivium’, the two lateral arms of which lie on either side of the arm which is opposite to that tubercle. 1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals ix. 570 In the fossil genus, Dysaster, this separation of the ambulacra into trivium and bivium exists naturally. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1804 |
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