quadrate — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.

   Examples

   […]figures some rounde, some triangle, some quadrate,[…]

2. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.

   Examples

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

3. Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.

   Usage

   • Archaic

   Examples

   The Moraliſt tells us that a quadrat ſolid wiſe man, ſhould[…]be ſtill the same,[…]

4. Squared; suited; correspondent.

   Usage

   • Archaic

   Examples

   a generical description quadrate to both

Noun

1. A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.

   Examples

   At which command, the powers militant That stood for heav'n, in mighty quadrate joyn'd.

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

1. To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Transitive

2. To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Transitive

3. To square.

   Usage

   • Transitive or intransitive
   • Archaic

   Examples

   quadrating the circle

4. To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Transitive

   Examples

   not quadrating with American ideas of right, justice and reason

   More examples (2)

   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.

   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.

Adjective

1. having four sides and four angles

Noun

1. a cubelike object

   Broader terms

   cuberegular hexahedron

2. a square-shaped object

   Broader terms

   squarefoursquare