Quadrate /(?)/

Quad·rate

Quadrate

a.
  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.
  3. Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. [Archaic]
  4. Squared; suited; correspondent. [Archaic]

Phrases & Compounds
Quadrate bone
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.

Quadrate

n.
  1. A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square. (Geom.)
    At which command, the powers militant That stood for heaven, in mighty quadrate joined.
  2. 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. (Astrol.)
  3. The quadrate bone. (Anat.)

Quadrate

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Quadrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Quadrating

  1. 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.

Quadrate

v. t.
  1. To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.