quadrate

quadrate is an Adverb

Definition:

[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.