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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



... after all, if you did not exhibit as much heroism as Brutus, who condemned his son to death; certainly more than Zaleucus, who condemned his to the loss of an eye, having first submitted to the loss of his own, to make the love of a father quadrate with the justice ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 • Alexander Leighton

... perpendicular than in other breeds. When the squamosal process is free, instead of expanding at the tip, it is reduced to an extremely fine and pointed style, of variable length. The pterygoid and quadrate bones present no difference. The palatine bones are a little more curved upwards at their posterior ends. The frontal bones, anteriorly to the protuberance, are, as in Dorkings, very broad, but in a variable degree. The nasal bones either stand far apart, as in ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. • Charles Darwin

... rowl In duskie wreathes, reluctant flames, the signe Of wrauth awak't: nor with less dread the loud Ethereal Trumpet from on high gan blow: 60 At which command the Powers Militant, That stood for Heav'n, in mighty Quadrate joyn'd Of Union irresistible, mov'd on In silence thir bright Legions, to the sound Of instrumental Harmonie that breath'd Heroic Ardor to advent'rous deeds Under thir God-like Leaders, in the Cause Of God and his Messiah. On they move Indissolubly ...
— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton

... stubble, some stark bare; Some sharp, stiletto fashion, dagger-like, That may with whisp'ring, a man's eyes outpike; Some with the hammer cut, or roman T, Their Beards extravagant, reform'd must be; Some with the quadrate, some triangle fashion, Some circular, some oval in translation; Some perpendicular in longitude; Some like a thicket for their crassitude; That heights, depths, breadths, triform, square, oval, round, And rules geometrical in Beards ...
— At the Sign of the Barber's Pole - Studies In Hirsute History • William Andrews

... known, that the abolitionists are contending against. But, say you, to induce our forbearance, "We good men at the South are restoring slavery, as fast as we can, to what it should be; and we will soon make its erring practice quadrate with its perfect and sinless theory." Success to your endeavors! But let me ask these good men, whether similar representations would avail to make them forbearing towards any other class of offenders; ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... centres in their peculiar science and the cognate 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



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