Associations to the word «Quadrivium»

Wiktionary

QUADRIVIUM, noun. The higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music.

Dictionary definition

QUADRIVIUM, noun. (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats