Definition of "quadrates" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quadrate. (verb)

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• "Both objects he took to be something like flat quadrates."
• "The bones at the base, from the occipital foramen to the anterior end (including the quadrates and pterygoids), are absolutely identical in _shape_ in all the skulls."
• "But it is now felt by multitudes to be the more reasonable interpretation, -- the second verse certainly more naturally suggesting previous revolutions in the history of the earth than its then instant creation: and though we frankly concede that we have not yet seen any account of the whole first chapter of Genesis which quadrates with the doctrines of geology, it does not become us hastily to conclude that there can be none."