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noun

Quadrate n.

(Geom.) 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 heaven, in mighty quadrate joined."

(Astrol.) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6.

(Anat.) The quadrate bone.

verb

Quadrate v. t. To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.

Quadrate v. i. (past & past part. quadrated; pres. part. quadrating) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; followed by with. (Archaic) "The objections of these speculatists of its forms do not quadrate with their theories."

adjective

Quadrate adj.

Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square. "Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate."

Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. " Quadrate and cubical numbers."

Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. (Archaic) " A quadrate, solid, wise man."

Squared; suited; correspondent. (Archaic) " A generical description quadrate to both."

Quadrate bone (Anat.), a bone between the base of the lower jaw and the skull in most vertebrates below the mammals. In reptiles and birds it articulates the lower jaw with the skull; in mammals it is represented by the malleus or incus.

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"Quadrate" Quotes from Famous Books

... such a variety of imaginations, which each contemplates diversely, upon which the natural self-love of each disputant induces him to reject with vehement indignation every thing that does not fall in with his own peculiar mode of thinking—that does not quadrate either with his superstition or his ignorance, or ...

— The System of Nature, Vol. 2 • Baron D'Holbach

... curve in the front wall of the ruin at that point, the shape of room f is roughly quadrate, with banquettes on two sides. There are six large beam holes in the walls, and the position of the first floor is well shown on the face of the partition, separating f from g. The passageway from one of these rooms to the other ...

— Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 • Jesse Walter Fewkes

... tribes were principally horsemen, and it is not surprising, therefore, that the coat of arms of the former kingdom of Poland in the second and third quadrate shows a silver rider in armor on a silver running horse shod with golden shoes, and that at present about 1,000 families in 25 lineages of the Polish Counts Jastrzembiec Bolesezy, the so-called "Polnische Hufeisen Adel" (Polish Horseshoe Nobility), at ...

— Scientific American Supplement No. 819 - Volume XXXII, Number 819. Issue Date September 12, 1891 • Various

... the head, obtusely pointed and ovoid; nasal appendage quadrate, with a transverse bar nearly surmounting it; upper leaf triangular, with slightly emarginate sides; clear brown above, paler below and ...

— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale