quadriviumn.

Brit.

/kwɒˈdrɪvɪəm/,

/kwəˈdrɪvɪəm/, U.S.

/kwɑˈdrɪviəm/

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin quadrivium.

Etymology: < classical Latin quadrivium place where four ways meet, in post-classical Latin also the four mathematical sciences (6th cent. in Boethius) < quadri- quadri- comb. form + via way (see via n.) + -ium (see -y suffix⁴). Compare Old French quadruve , cadruve the four mathematical sciences (c1210), Middle French quadrive crossroads (16th cent.), French quadrivium the four mathematical sciences (1797). Compare earlier quadrivial adj.

1. A place where four roads meet; a crossroads. Now archaic and rare.

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a1626 L. Andrewes Morall Law Expounded (1642) 40 Seeking to finde God, we come into another quadrivium, or way that hath foure turnings, the foure principall religions of the world.

1735 J. Farmer Hist. Waltham 188 And so going in the aforesaid Way, leading, from the aforesaid Quadrivium against Collier Row..to a certain Elm marked with a Cross.

1822 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (1855) 71 He was buried in the centre of a quadrivium, or conflux of four roads.., with a stake driven through his heart.

1878 Handbk. Travellers Southern Italy (ed. 8) 241/1 Returning into the Street of Fortune, we..reach the quadrivium, caused by the junction of the Streets of Fortune, of Stabiae and its continuation, and of Nola.

1987 I. Sinclair White Chappell Scarlet Tracings iv. 44 The staked heart of John Williams, the Ratcliff Highway Murderer, beats evenly at the quadrivium, at peace, from the shuntings of the work ethic.

2. In European schools and universities from late antiquity to the early modern period: the four mathematical sciences, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. Cf. trivium n. 1. historical.Together with the more elementary trivium, these four subjects made up the seven liberal arts (or seven sciences). The four sciences of the quadrivium were linked by a concern with number or magnitude, arithmetic dealing with magnitudes as such, geometry with immovable magnitudes, astronomy with magnitudes in motion, and music with the relations of different magnitudes to one another.

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society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] > a department of study > arts > quadrivium

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1657 J. Davies tr. G. Naudé Hist. Magick xvii. 225 That so famous Quadrivium of the Mathematicks, which, besides all that is now shewn in Colledges, was then taught.

1765 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. I. 481 When the disciple, having learned these three branches, which were generally known by the name of trivium, extended his ambition farther, and was desirous of new improvement in the sciences, he was conducted slowly through the quadrivium to the very summit of literary fame.

1804 A. Ranken Hist. France III. iv. 308 Arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy formed Quadrivium.

1872 J. R. Lowell Dante in Prose Wks. (1890) IV. 124 There can be no doubt that he went through the trivium..and the quadrivium..of the then ordinary university course.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 99/1 It [sc. the Accademia del Cimento] was an academy of experiment, a deliberate protest against the deductive science of the quadrivium.

1995 Fellowship Catholic Scholars Newslet. July 38/1 Grammar, rhetoric, logic—the arts of the trivium; arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy—the arts of the quadrivium.

2003 B. Bernstein Class, Codes & Control IV. ii. 85 The strong classification..has its roots in the medieval university, in the major classification between the Trivium and the Quadrivium..and the subordination of both to religion.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quadrivium
释义	quadriviumn. Brit. /kwɒˈdrɪvɪəm/, /kwəˈdrɪvɪəm/, U.S. /kwɑˈdrɪviəm/ Forms: also with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin quadrivium. Etymology: < classical Latin quadrivium place where four ways meet, in post-classical Latin also the four mathematical sciences (6th cent. in Boethius) < quadri- quadri- comb. form + via way (see via n.) + -ium (see -y suffix⁴). Compare Old French quadruve , cadruve the four mathematical sciences (c1210), Middle French quadrive crossroads (16th cent.), French quadrivium the four mathematical sciences (1797). Compare earlier quadrivial adj. 1. A place where four roads meet; a crossroads. Now archaic and rare. ΚΠ a1626 L. Andrewes Morall Law Expounded (1642) 40 Seeking to finde God, we come into another quadrivium, or way that hath foure turnings, the foure principall religions of the world. 1735 J. Farmer Hist. Waltham 188 And so going in the aforesaid Way, leading, from the aforesaid Quadrivium against Collier Row..to a certain Elm marked with a Cross. 1822 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (1855) 71 He was buried in the centre of a quadrivium, or conflux of four roads.., with a stake driven through his heart. 1878 Handbk. Travellers Southern Italy (ed. 8) 241/1 Returning into the Street of Fortune, we..reach the quadrivium, caused by the junction of the Streets of Fortune, of Stabiae and its continuation, and of Nola. 1987 I. Sinclair White Chappell Scarlet Tracings iv. 44 The staked heart of John Williams, the Ratcliff Highway Murderer, beats evenly at the quadrivium, at peace, from the shuntings of the work ethic. 2. In European schools and universities from late antiquity to the early modern period: the four mathematical sciences, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. Cf. trivium n. 1. historical.Together with the more elementary trivium, these four subjects made up the seven liberal arts (or seven sciences). The four sciences of the quadrivium were linked by a concern with number or magnitude, arithmetic dealing with magnitudes as such, geometry with immovable magnitudes, astronomy with magnitudes in motion, and music with the relations of different magnitudes to one another. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] > a department of study > arts > quadrivium carfax1387 quadrivials1522 quadrivium1804 1657 J. Davies tr. G. Naudé Hist. Magick xvii. 225 That so famous Quadrivium of the Mathematicks, which, besides all that is now shewn in Colledges, was then taught. 1765 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. I. 481 When the disciple, having learned these three branches, which were generally known by the name of trivium, extended his ambition farther, and was desirous of new improvement in the sciences, he was conducted slowly through the quadrivium to the very summit of literary fame. 1804 A. Ranken Hist. France III. iv. 308 Arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy formed Quadrivium. 1872 J. R. Lowell Dante in Prose Wks. (1890) IV. 124 There can be no doubt that he went through the trivium..and the quadrivium..of the then ordinary university course. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 99/1 It [sc. the Accademia del Cimento] was an academy of experiment, a deliberate protest against the deductive science of the quadrivium. 1995 Fellowship Catholic Scholars Newslet. July 38/1 Grammar, rhetoric, logic—the arts of the trivium; arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy—the arts of the quadrivium. 2003 B. Bernstein Class, Codes & Control IV. ii. 85 The strong classification..has its roots in the medieval university, in the major classification between the Trivium and the Quadrivium..and the subordination of both to religion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1626
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