quadrivium

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quadrivium - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Quadrivium \Quad*riv"i*um\, n. [L.]
     The four "liberal arts," arithmetic, music, geometry, and
     astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium.
     [1913 Webster]

quadrivium - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  quadrivium
      n 1: (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a
           medieval university involving arithmetic and music and
           geometry and astronomy