rare. [n. of action from mod.L. cubāre to cube (used or assumed): See -ATION.] = CUBATURE.
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., Cubature or Cubation, of a solid.
1887. Q. Rev., April, 441. He [Hobbes] had collected into one volume his quadrature of the circle, cubation of the sphere, and duplication of the cube.
