The three elementary subjects of literary education up to the twelfth century—Grammar, Rhetoric, and Logic. (See Quadrivium.)
N.B. Theology was introduced in the twelfth century.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.