quadrate

Etymology

From Middle English quadrat, from Old French quadrat (“a square”), 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”).

adj

1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
   Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate. 1563, John Foxe, Acts and Monuments
2. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
   The number of Ten hath been as highly extolled, as containing even, odd, long, plain, quadrate and cubical numbers. 1646-72, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, book 4, ch. 12
3. (archaic) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
   a quadrat, solid, wise man 1644, James Howell, letter to Sir Ed. Sa. Knight
4. (archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.

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.
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, transitive, intransitive) 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