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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.

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