Definition of "quadrate"

quadrate

/ˈkwɒd.ɹət/

adjective
comparative more quadrate, superlative most quadrate
1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
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  Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate.
  1563, John Foxe, Acts and Monuments
2. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
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  The number of Ten hath been as highly extolled, as containing even, odd, long, plain, quadrate and cubical numbers.
  1646-72, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, book 4, ch. 12
3. (archaic) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
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  a quadrat, solid, wise man
  1644, James Howell, letter to Sir Ed. Sa. Knight
4. (archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.
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  a generical description quadrate to both
  1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions
noun
plural quadrates
1. (geometry) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
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  At which command, the powers militantThat stood for heaven, in mighty quadrate joined.
  1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
2. (astrology) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
3. (anatomy) The quadrate bone.
verb
third-person singular simple present quadrates, present participle quadrating, simple past and past participle quadrated
1. (archaic, transitive) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
2. (archaic, transitive) To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
3. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To square.
4. (archaic, transitive) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).
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  The objections of these speculatists, if its forces do not quadrate with their theories, are as valid against such an old and beneficent government as against the most violent tyranny or the greenest usurpation.
  1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […]
  In short I am resolved, from this instance, never to give way to the weakness of human nature more, nor to think anything virtue which doth not exactly quadrate with the unerring rule of right.
  1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […]

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