Triv"i*um (?), n. [LL. See Trivial.]

1.

The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence.

⇒ The trivium and quadrivium together made up the seven liberal arts. See Quadrivium.

2. Zool.

The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.

 

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