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noun
Quadrate  n.  
1.
(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."
2.
(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.
3.
(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.  
1.
Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square. "Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate."
2.
Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. " Quadrate and cubical numbers."
3.
Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. (Archaic) " A quadrate, solid, wise man."
4.
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



... some starke bare, Some sharpe Steletto fashion, dagger like, That may with whispering a mans eyes out pike: Some with the hammer cut, or Romane T,[163] Their beards extravagant reform'd must be, Some with the quadrate, some triangle fashion, Some circular, some ovall in translation, Some perpendicular in longitude, Some like a thicket for their crassitude, That heights, depths, bredths, triforme, square, ovall, round, And rules Ge'metricall in beards are found. Besides the upper lip's strange variation, ...
— Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers • W. A. Clouston

... the clypeus yellow; the mandibles and scape ferruginous, the former black at their base, the latter yellow in front; the sides of the face with a bright golden pile. Thorax: the posterior margin of the prothorax, the tegulae, scutellum, and a quadrate spot on each side of the metathorax at its base yellow; the legs ferruginous, with the coxae, trachanters, and claw-joint of the tarsi black; wings fulvo-hyaline, the nervures ferruginous, a fuscous spot at the apex of the anterior pair; the meso- and metathorax transversely striated, the latter ...
— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various

... woman with a negro type of countenance, as far as I remember, but her figure has remained with me better than her face. It was a portly figure, like that of a domestic duck in high condition, and her gait was, as Mr. Onoocool Chunder Mookerjee would say, "well quadrate" to the figure. Engulphed in her voluminous embrace was a little cherub, with golden curls and blue eyes dewy with passing tears—a pretty study of sunshine and shower. The great, bare arms of ...
— Behind the Bungalow • EHA

... enough; there needs nothing more to give a strong presumption of falsehood. Yes, reply I, here are metaphysics surely; but they are all on your side, who advance an abstruse hypothesis, which can never be made intelligible, nor quadrate with any particular instance or illustration. The hypothesis which we embrace is plain. It maintains that morality is determined by sentiment. It defines virtue to be WHATEVER MENTAL ACTION OR QUALITY ...
— An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals • David Hume

... game at the cards for two persons, though she would ridicule the pedantry of the terms—such as pique—repique—the capot—they savoured (she thought) of affectation. But games for two, or even three, she never greatly cared for. She loved the quadrate, or square. She would argue thus:—Cards are warfare: the ends are gain, with glory. But cards are war, in disguise of a sport: when single adversaries encounter, the ends proposed are too palpable. By themselves, it is too close a fight; with ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb

... mysteries and exquisite scientific manipulations of heraldry, and they may be heard talking with compassionate contempt of some one so grossly ignorant as not to know a bar-dexter from a bend-sinister, or who asks what is meant by a cross potent quadrate party per pale. ...
— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton

... In jedem rechtwinkligen Dreieck ist das Quadrat der Hypotenuse so gross wie die Quadrate der beiden ...
— German Science Reader - An Introduction to Scientific German, for Students of - Physics, Chemistry and Engineering • Charles F. Kroeh



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