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Webster 1913 Edition

Quadrate

Quad′rate

,
Adj.
[L.
quadratus
squared, p. p. of
quadrare
to make four-cornered, to make square, to square, to fit, suit, from
quadrus
square,
quattuor
four. See
Quadrant
, and cf.
Quadrat
,
Quarry
an arrow,
Square
.]
1.
Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
Figures, some round, some triangle, some
quadrate
.
Foxe.
2.
Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
“ Quadrate and cubical numbers.”
Sir T. Browne.
3.
Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
[Archaic]
“ A quadrate, solid, wise man.”
Howell.
4.
Squared; suited; correspondent.
[Archaic]
“ A generical description quadrate to both.”
Harvey.
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.

Quad′rate

,
Noun.
[L.
quadratum
. See
Quadrate
,
Adj.
]
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.
Milton.
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.

Quad′rate

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Quadrated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Quadrating
.]
[See
Quadrate
,
Adj.
]
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.
Burke.

Quad′rate

,
Verb.
T.
To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.

Webster 1828 Edition

Quadrate

QUAD'RATE

, a.
1.
Square; having four equal and parallel sides.
2.
Divisible into four equal parts.
3.
Square; equal; exact.
4.
Suited; fitted; applicable; correspondent.

QUAD'RATE

,
Noun.
1.
A square; a surface with four equal and parallel sides.
2.
In astrology, an aspect of the heavenly bodies, in which they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the quarter of a circle; the same as quartile.

QUAD'RATE

,
Verb.
I.
[L. quadro.]
To suit; to correspond; to agree with; to be accommodated; followed by with.
Aristotle's rules for epic poetry - cannot be supposed to quadrate exactly with modern heroic poems.

Definition 2024

Quadrate

Quadrate

See also: quadrate

German

Noun

Quadrate

  1. plural of Quadrat

quadrate

quadrate

See also: Quadrate

English

Adjective

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.

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

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 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.

Italian

Adjective

quadrate

  1. Feminine plural form of quadrato

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adverb

quadrātē ‎(not comparable)

  1. fourfold, four times

Related terms

References

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aːtə

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