Trivium

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Trivium \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.
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     Note: The trivium and quadrivium together made up the seven


           liberal arts. See {Quadrivium}.
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     2. (Zool.) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms,
        collectively.
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