Quadrate

Origin

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").

Full definition of quadrate

Adjective

1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
• FoxeFigures, 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.
• HowellA quadrate, solid, wise man.
4. (archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.
• HarveyA generical description quadrate to both.

Noun

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 militantThat 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

1. (archaic, transitive) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
2. (archaic, transitive) To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
3. (archaic, ambitransitive) 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 BurkeThe 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.