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  • n  (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence

  • Under this triumvirate Armour students will tackle a trivium: materials, functions, design.
  • President Hutchins also thought that universities in search of "clear and distinct ideas" might do well to revive the medieval schoolmen's trivium of rhetoric, grammar and logic .
  • In simpler times, it was all included in the medieval universities' quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music) and trivium (grammar, rhetoric, logic).
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  • Complaint against Blochman upheld
    The state has upheld a parent complaint that the Blochman Union School District failed to hold Trivium Charter School accountable in meeting the needs of a student in the school’s special education program.
    July 18, 2013 - Santa Maria Times
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  • Matt Heafy in MTV.com
    Ever since the beginning of Trivium, it's been our goal to be the biggest metal band in the world,frontman and guitarist Matt Heafy said about his band of heavy-metal upstarts from the Sunshine State. "The next Metallica. We've had that...

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