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What's The Definition Of Quadrate?

\Quad"rate\, a. [L. quadratus squared, p. p. of quadrare to make four-cornered, to make square, to square, to fit, suit, from quadrus square, quattuor four. See {Quadrant}, and cf. {Quadrat}, {Quarry} an arrow, {Square}.] 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. `` Quadrate and cubical numbers.'' --Sir T. Browne. 3. Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. [Archaic] `` A quadrate, solid, wise man.'' --Howell. 4. Squared; suited; correspondent. [Archaic] `` A generical description quadrate to both.'' --Harvey. {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.
\Quad"rate\, n. [L. quadratum. See {Quadrate}, a.] 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. --Milton. 2. (Astrol.) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90[deg], or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the {Note} under {Aspect}, 6. 3. (Anat.) The quadrate bone.
\Quad"rate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Quadrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Quadrating}.] [See {Quadrate}, a.] 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. --Burke.
\Quad"rate\, v. t. To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.