quadrate

Adjective

quadrate (comparative more quadrate, superlative most quadrate)

1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
   • […]figures some rounde, some triangle, some quadrate,[…]1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, “The examination of William Liuing, and of hys wyfe, before Darbyshere Chauncellor of London”, in Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous...
2. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
   • 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.
   • The Moraliſt tells us that a quadrat ſolid wiſe man, ſhould[…]be ſtill the same,[…]2026 October 11 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “To Sir Ed. Sa. Knight”, in [Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ.], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, section VI, page 306
4. (archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.
   • a generical description quadrate to both1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions

Noun

quadrate (plural quadrates)

1. A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
   • At which command, the powers militant
     That stood for heav'n, in mighty quadrate joyn'd.1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
2. An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.

   Synonyms:

   square

3. The quadrate bone.

Verb

UK/kwɒdˈɹeɪt/US/kwɑdˈɹeɪt/

quadrate (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. (ambitransitive, archaic) To square.
   • quadrating the circle
4. (archaic, transitive) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).
   • not quadrating with American ideas of right, justice and reason
   • 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, […], →OCLC