Cryptic crossword clue
Brief virtue — I’m revising old liberal arts curriculum 7

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word TRIVIUM

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The straight part
We know that "old liberal arts curriculum" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case old liberal arts curriculum = trivium.
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What does TRIVIUM mean?

TRIVIUM noun
  1. (in medieval universities) The lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric.
  2. The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.

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