quadrate

See also: Quadrate

English

Alternative forms

• quadrat (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English quadrat, quadrate, 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”).

Pronunciation

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

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

Adjective

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

Related terms

• quadratic
• quadration
• quadrature

 

Etymology 2

From Middle English quadrat, quadrate, from Latin quadrātum. Doublet of quadrat; compare also quadrant (“square or quadrangle”).

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (Southern England):

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

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, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 61-62:

     At which command, the powers militant
     That stood for heav'n, in mighty quadrate joyn'd.

2. (astrology) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.

   Synonym: square

3. (anatomy) The quadrate bone.

Etymology 3

From Latin quadrātus, past participle of quadrō.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kwɒdˈɹeɪt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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

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.
4. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To square.

   quadrating the circle

5. (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:

     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:

     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.

Further reading

• “quadrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “quadrate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “quadrate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “quadrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• arquated

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

quadrate

1. feminine plural of quadrato

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

quadrātē (not comparable)

1. fourfold, four times

Related terms

• quadrātārius
• quadrātiō
• quadrātor
• quadrātus
• quadrō
• quadrus

 

References

• “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.