quadrate

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”).

quadrate (comparative more quadrate, superlative most quadrate)

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

     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.
   • Howell

     a quadrate, solid, wise man

4. (archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.
   • Harvey

     a generical description quadrate to both

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.

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. (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

   • Edmund Burke

     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. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:

     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.

• quadrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• quadrate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• quadrate at OneLook Dictionary Search

• arquated

quadrate

1. Feminine plural form of quadrato

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷaˈdraː.teː/

quadrātē (not comparable)

1. fourfold, four times

• 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