Obs. Also quadrat. [App. an alteration of QUADRANT sb.1, through assoc. with prec., or through misreading of quadrāt = quadrant.]

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  1.  A quarter; spec. of a circle. = QUADRANT sb.1 4.

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1551.  Recorde, Pathw. Knowl., I. Defin., The quarter of a circle, named a quadrate.

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1604.  R. Cawdrey, Table Alph., Quadrate, a quarter.

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  2.  = QUADRANT 5.

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1551.  Recorde, Pathw. Knowl., II. Pref. The arte of Measuryng by the quadrate geometricall, and the disorders committed in vsyng the same. Ibid. A newe quadrate newely inuented by the author hereof.

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1559.  W. Cunningham, Cosmogr. Glasse, 163. The use of the shipmans quadrat, whose inventor was worthy D. Gemma. Ibid., 164. The hier part of the Quadrate.

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