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            "mean": "(obsolete) Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.\nc. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott:Tryuyals, & quatryuyals, \u017fo \u017fore now they appayreThat Parrot the Popagay, hath pytye to beholdeHow the re\u017ft of good lernyng, is roufled vp & trold\n1691, , Athen\u00e6 Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690.\u00a0, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London:    Tho Bennet\u00a0:St. Edmund was bred in this University in the Trivials and Quadrivials till he was Professor of Arts"
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