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quadrivialis

quadrivialis [CL], quadruvialis 1 belonging to the quadrivium or four of the liberal arts (usu. arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy). b (as sb. n. pl.) the subjects of the quadrivium, the four liberal arts. quia ‥ omnes sciencias injuste conatur destruere, juste ab omnibus destruetur; primo a scienciis ~ivialibus, grammatica, sc., dialectica, rhetorica, et musica, que de sono et voce considerant Bradw. CD 529C; in scienciis ‥ ~ivialibus sufficienter imbutus Flete Westm. 85.  b isto secundo modo mathematici dicuntur scientes et periti in ~ialibus Kilwardby OS 71; de ‥ ~ivialibus in generali J. Waleys Compend. 140rb; ut alati more seraphico super cherubim scanderetis, ~ivialium pennas vobis quatuor adjungentes ‥ R. Bury Phil. 4. 47; fuit [Ptolomeus] eciam in ~uvialibus doctissimus W. Burley Vit. Phil. 302; 1435 discipline labore in grammatica radicatus studui in logica, deinde in rhetorica, fructum in ~ivialibus promittente FormOx 448. 2 instructed in the subjects of the quadrivium. de Beda qui fuit ~uvialis a Deo vero magistro Garl. Epith. VII 435 tit.; orbis quadrifidi dimensores, ~iviales historie descriptores Higd. I prol. p. 6 (cf. Eul. Hist. I 1: orbis quadrivii dimensores, historicorum descriptores).

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