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Definition of Quadrivial
1. a. Having four ways meeting in a point.
2. n. One of the four "liberal arts" making up the quadrivium.
Definition of Quadrivial
1. Noun. Any of the four "liberal arts" making up the quadrivium. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quadrivial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quadrivial
Literary usage of Quadrivial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notices and Descriptions of Antiquities of the Provincia Romana of Gaul: Now by Thomas Pownall (1788)
"... a quadrivial arch crowned with a complete entablature ; which entablature is
... of each arch of the quadrivial ..."
2. The Mansions of England in the Olden Time by Joseph Nash (1906)
"The arrangement of the building was sometimes quadrangular—the "quadrivial courte"
of Boorde—sometimes the front containing the hall was recessed with wings ..."
3. The Rise and Early Constitution of Universities: With a Survey of Mediæval by Simon Somerville Laurie (1887)
"Music in the quadrivial course exhausted all that was known on the subject, ...
It is not to be supposed that quadrivial studies were much pursued. ..."
4. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1803)
"It is the body of which roads are the arms and legs, — a trivial or quadrivial
place, the thoroughfare and ordinary of travelers. The word is from the Latin ..."
5. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"It is the body of which roads are the arms and legs, — a trivial or quadrivial
place, the thoroughfare and ordinary of travelers. The word is from the Latin ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... of which roads are the arms and legs,— a trivial or quadrivial place, the
thoroughfare and ordinary of travelers. The word is from the Latin villa, ..."
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