Definition of "quadrivial" []

• Any of the four "liberal arts" making up the quadrivium. (noun)

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• "His part on logic reproduces Blemmydes™ Epitome logica with some additions; his part on natural philosophy combines works by Blemmydes with works by Pachymeres and Michael of Ephesus; his part on the quadrivial disciplines is identical with the Logic and Quadrivium by the anonymous of 1007."
• "It is the body of which roads are the arms and legs — a trivial or quadrivial place, the thoroughfare and ordinary of travelers."
• "Aeneas and Dido (_Erec_, l. 5337); or when, in the same book, Erec's coronation mantle, though it is fairy work, bears no embroidered designs of Broceliande or Avalon, but four allegorical figures of the quadrivial sciences, with a reference by Chrestien to Macrobius as his authority in describing them."