quadrangularly love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the form of a quadrangle.

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  • adverb In a quadrangular shape or manner.

Etymologies

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quadrangular +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • A gray wall quadrangularly vaulted to a large north light; casts of feet, hands, faces hung to nails about; prints, sketches in oil and water-color stuck here and there lower down; a rickety table, with paint and palettes and bottles of varnish and siccative tossed comfortlessly on it; an easel, with a strip of some faded mediaeval silk trailing from it;

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

  • By stooping down before the stove, and pressing his shoulder against its brass doors, Colville managed to lull his enemy, while he studied the figures of the woman-headed, woman-breasted hounds developing into vines and foliage that covered the frescoed trellising of the quadrangularly vaulted ceiling.

    Indian Summer William Dean Howells 1878

  • A gray wall quadrangularly vaulted to a large north light; casts of feet, hands, faces hung to nails about; prints, sketches in oil and water-color stuck here and there lower down; a rickety table, with paint and palettes and bottles of varnish and siccative tossed comfortlessly on it; an easel, with a strip of some faded mediaeval silk trailing from it;

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878

  • Then you find it is only the _suggestion_ of a cross -- four stars set almost quadrangularly, some brighter than others.

    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • A gray wall quadrangularly vaulted to a large north light; casts of feet, hands, faces hung to nails about; prints, sketches in oil and water-color stuck here and there lower down; a rickety table, with paint and palettes and bottles of varnish and siccative tossed comfortlessly on it; an easel, with a strip of some faded mediaeval silk trailing from it; a lay figure simpering in incomplete nakedness, with its head on one side, and a stocking on one leg, and a Japanese dress dropped before it; dusty rugs and skins kicking over the varnished floor; canvases faced to the mop-board; an open trunk overflowing with costumes: these features one might notice anywhere.

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • It is composed of terrene limestone and marl, quadrangularly shaped, like the spire of some church, six feet by ten at its base, with an altitude of more than two hundred feet, — making, together with the mound, an elevation of five hundred feet. [

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

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