ppl. a. [f. SQUARE v.]
1. Made or fashioned square; reduced to a square form.
1382. Wyclif, 1 Kings vi. 35. And alle he couerde with goldyn platis, with squaryd werk at rewle.
c. 1410. Master of Game (MS. Digby 182), xiv. A grehounde shulde haue … ve thies gret and swared [Bodl. MS. squared] as an hare.
1416. York Memo. Bk. (Surtees), I. 213. Pur overer et faire … flat salere, cowped salere, sqward salere.
1520. in Archaeol. (1892), LIII. 18. A pyxe of Every … havyng a squared steple yn the topp.
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., II. (1586), 106 b. The squared, and the round, or the whole timber.
1656. Rites of Durh. (1903), 84. A fair Ivory squared table covered with a green cloth.
1685. Temple, Ess. Her. Virtue, Wks. 1720, I. 211. Another very long and large [highway], paved all with cut or squared Stone.
1707. Sibbald, Scotland (1739), I. 28. A Wall of squared and cut Stones.
1778. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 2), II. 1389/2. It is all of squared free stone, strong and lofty.
1809. Campbell, Gert. Wyom., III. xviii. Deep Tears the innavigable gulf below Its squared rock.
1869. Rankine, Machine & Hand-tools, Pl. H 6, the screw, Z. which is likewise formed with a squared end to receive a winch handle or key.
1875. Carpentry & Join., 126. There can be 18 in. of the squared support above the pedestal.
fig. 1586. Ferne, Blaz. Gentrie, 83. Men seeming of such a squared conscience that they pretend all to run either to maintenance of superstition or vaine glory.
1594. Selimus, Greene’s Wks. (Grosart), XIV. 286. Your squared words And broad-mouth’d tearmes, can neuer conquer vs.
b. Drawn up in a square or squares.
1667. Milton, P. L., I. 758. Thir summons call’d From every Band and squared Regiment By place or choice the worthiest.
1798. in Unit. Services Mag., XIX. 464. They rushed on against our squared battalions.
1807. J. Barlow, Columb., III. 581. The troops in squared array Wait the wild hordes loose huddling to the fray.
1812. Cary, Dante, Purg., XXIV. 64. Like as the birds, that winter near the Nile, In squared regiment direct their course.
c. Marked with squares.
1902. Westm. Gaz., 21 June, 3/1. Take on the squared paper two perpendicular lines.
2. Multiplied by itself.
1557. Recorde, Whetst., G iv. That roote is called a Squared square roote, which maketh a square of squares in nomber.
1571. Digges, Pantom., IV. xi. Y ij b. For the superficies ye shall augmente the squared square of the side by 3.
1613. Tapp, Pathw. Knowledge, 293. A squared square number is the product of any number multiplyed 3 times into it selfe.
1664. E. Bushnell, Compl. Shipwright, 31. 5 times 5 is a squared number.
1787. Phil. Trans., LXXVII. 228. The 4th power, or squared squares of the sines of the latitudes.
3. Adapted, suited. rare.
1698. Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 112. Such a subtile Generation is this, and so fitly squared a place is Surat to exercise their Genius in. Ibid., 224.
Hence † Squaredly adv. Obs. rare.
1613. Tapp, Pathw. Knowledge, 322. Sq. of squ. squaredly square.
1674. Jeake, Arith. (1696), 272. A … Square of Squares Squaredly Squared. Ibid., 645. The Quotient shall be squaredly Quadratical.
