Synonyms for liberal arts
| Grammar : Noun |
Définition of liberal arts
Origin :- late 14c., translating Latin artes liberales; the seven attainments directed to intellectual enlargement, not immediate practical purpose, and thus deemed worthy of a free man (liberal in this sense is opposed to servile or mechanical). They were divided into the trivium -- grammar, logic, rhetoric (cf. trivial) -- and the quadrivium -- arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy.
- noun general knowledge studies
- He will not only be a Prince now, but a master "without a parallel" in the liberal arts.
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- It explains that there are two ways of reading books in the liberal arts.
- Extract from : « Life in the Medieval University » by Robert S. Rait, M.A.
- The seven liberal arts formed the basis of school instruction.
- Extract from : « History of Education » by Levi Seeley
- We are now not far from the Seven Liberal Arts; still we have not reached them.
- Extract from : « Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals » by Thomas Davidson
- The sum of the liberal arts was called , which we have corrupted into Encyclopdia.
- Extract from : « Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals » by Thomas Davidson
- Apollo with the Muses appear as the patrons of the liberal arts.
- Extract from : « Modern Painters, Volume V (of 5) » by John Ruskin
- They have schools of all kinds, for instruction in the liberal arts.
- Extract from : « The Geography of Strabo, Volume III (of 3) » by Strabo
- Reopened in 1909, it is now the only endowed liberal arts college in the State.
- Extract from : « North Dakota » by Various
- The liberal arts are as badly represented on the signboard as the Bar.
- Extract from : « The History of Signboards » by Jacob Larwood
- The summer school was now announced as the College of Liberal Arts.
- Extract from : « The Story of Chautauqua » by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
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