quadrate

• quadrat (obsolete)

From Middle English quadrat, from Old French quadrat (“a square”), from Latin quadrātus (“square”), past participle of quadrō (“to make four-cornered, square, put in order, intransitive be square”), from quadra (“a square”), later quadrus (“square”), from quattuor (“four”).

• (adjective, noun)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɒd.ɹət/, /ˈkwɒdˌɹeɪt/

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  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkwɑd.ɹət/, /ˈkwɑdˌɹeɪt/
• (verb)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /kwɒdˈɹeɪt/

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  • (US) IPA^(key): /kwɑdˈɹeɪt/
  • Rhymes: -eɪt

quadrate (comparative more quadrate, superlative most quadrate)

1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
   • 1563, John Foxe, Acts and Monuments

     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.
   • 1644, James Howell, letter to Sir Ed. Sa. Knight

     a quadrat, solid, wise man

4. (archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.
   • 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:

     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, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     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

   • 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], OCLC 946162345:

     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, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: 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

• IPA^(key): /kwaˈdra.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: qua‧drà‧te

quadrate

1. feminine plural of quadrato

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

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

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