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quadrivialadj.n. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin quadriviālis. Etymology: < classical Latin quadriviālis of or belonging to a crossroads, in post-classical Latin also relating to the quadrivium (13th cent.; 1344, c1450 in British sources) < quadrivium quadrivium n. + -ālis -al suffix1. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin quadrivialia, neuter plural (1215; from a1279 in British sources), the quadrivium. Compare Middle French quadrivial, kadrivial relating to the quadrivium (c1494–8).With the β. forms compare discussion at quadri- comb. form. A. adj.society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [adjective] > trivium or quadrivium in tr. Palladius (Duke Humfrey) (1896) Prol. 76 (MED) Also thus prompt to profre Vche art quadriuial. 1481 tr. Cicero (Caxton) sig. e6v Light sciences callid trynals, as be gramer logyk and rethorik in comparison of the quadryiuall sciences. 1496 (Pynson) sig. aiii Frendely him fostered quatriuial aliaunce. 1792 J. Gutch tr. A. à Wood i. 150 An enemy to Trivial and Quadrivial Sciences, our Author wrote much against him in his Metalogicus. 1886 S. S. Lawrie 61 Practically under the name of dialectic, logic was a quadrivial study. 1912 V. 172/2 The ‘trivial’ arts were Grammar, Rhetoric, and Dialectics... The ‘quadrivial’ arts were Geometry, Arithmetic, Astronomy, and Music. 1949 Winter 40/2 A quadrivial passion for theology and literature, horses and international peace. 1994 25 235 It is relevant in this context that quadrivial studies seem to have been pursued energetically in twelfth-century Hereford. society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [adjective] society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [adjective] > having four ways meeting 1480 W. Worcester in J. Nasmith (1778) 177 Wythynne the yate iiii quadryvyalle weyes. 1631 B. Jonson Inigo Jones 11 in II He [may] draw a Forum, wth quadriuiall Streets. 1862 H. D. Thoreau (1863) 171 A trivial or quadrivial place. 1890 O. Crawfurd 303 Passing one day through the quadrivial square that lies beneath the clerigos tower. 1912 21 Mar. 10/4 [Slogan] Dunkirk—the Quadrivial Port. the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adjective] > quadrilateral the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [adjective] > two-dimensional > quadrilateral 1540 A. Borde B iij Deuyde the lodgynges by the cyrcuyte of the quadryuyall courte. B. n.the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > four > [noun] > group of four ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 5 (MED) The triuialle of the vertues theologicalle and quadriuialle [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. þe metynge of foure weies; L. quadrivium] of the cardinalle vertues. society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] > a department of study > arts > quadrivium 1522 J. Skelton 511 A poore maister of arte..had lytell parte Of the quatriuials Nor yet of triuials. 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. ii. vi. f. 79/2, in R. Holinshed I The Quadriuials..(I meane Arithmetike, Musicke, Geometrie, and Astronomie). a1656 J. Hales (1673) i. 282 Trivials and Quadrivials, as old Clerks were wont to name them. 1716 M. Davies II. 92 Edward Seymour..was educated in Trivials, and partly in Quadrivials in Oxon. 1886 G. C. Brodrick 64 These seven sciences were no other than the old Trivials and Quadrivials. 1987 59 8 It [sc. music] first entered the curriculum as one of the ‘quadrivials’, along with arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  adj.n.?1440 |
