Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In quadrature.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
quadrate .
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Examples
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A certain Chever also performed sundry singular mathematical feats, such as squaring the circle, a problem which he reduced to the single question, _Construere mundum divinae menti analogum_, and showing that the parabola, the only conic section squared by ancient or modern geometers, could never be quadrated, to the eternal discomfiture and discredit of the shade of Archimedes.
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The doctrines of Plato formed the basis of his creed, and it required no little ingenuity, to shew how all other theories quadrated with the speculations of the Athenian sage.
The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution 1854
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I had, however, my duty to perform; and, strange as it may appear, that duty quadrated with the wishes of the young man himself; who, as he struggled with the demon that threatened to overpower him, seemed to rise in hope as every minute diminished the chance of his salvation.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 John Mackay Wilson 1819
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