quadrate

See also: Quadrate

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “quadrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French quadrat (“a square”), from Latin quadratus (“square”), past participle of quadrare (“to make four-cornered, square, put in order, intransitive be square”), from quadra (“a square”), later quadrus (“square”), from quattuor (“four”).

Adjective

quadrate (comparative more quadrate, superlative most quadrate)

1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
   • (Can we date this quote by Foxe and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate.

2. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
   • 1646-72, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, book 4, ch. 12:

     The number of Ten hath been as highly extolled, as containing even, odd, long, plain, quadrate and cubical numbers.

3. (archaic) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
   • (Can we date this quote by Howell and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     a quadrate, solid, wise man

4. (archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.
   • (Can we date this quote by Harvey and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     a generical description quadrate to both

Noun

quadrate (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.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VI:

     At which command, the powers militant

     That stood for heaven, in mighty quadrate joined.

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

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.

   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

   • (Can we date this quote by Edmund Burke and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     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.

Further reading

• “quadrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “quadrate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “quadrate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• arquated

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Italian

Adjective

quadrate

1. feminine plural of quadrato

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Latin

Etymology

From quadrō (“make square”), from quadrus (“square, four-sided”), from quattuor (“four”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kʷaˈdraː.teː/, [kʷäˈd̪räːt̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwaˈdra.te/, [kwäˈd̪räːt̪e]

Adverb

quadrātē (not comparable)

1. fourfold, four times

Related terms

• quadrātārius
• quadrātiō
• quadrātor

• quadrātus
• quadrō
• quadrus

References

• “quadrate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quadrate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.