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quadrangular, a.|kwəˈdræŋgjʊlə(r)|
[ad. late L. quadrangulāris (Boethius), f. quadrangulum: see quadrangle and -ar, and cf. F. quadrangulaire (1542).]
Shaped like a quadrangle; having four angles; of four-cornered base or section.
1592G. Harvey Pierce's Super. (1593) 20 The ægyptian Mercury..his Image in Athens was quadrangular. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 250 A company of Horses set like a Tower in a Quadrangular form in a field, was called Pergus. 1611Coryat Crudities 169 It hath a prety quadrangular Court adjoyning to it. 1671Phil. Trans. VI. 2216 It was a very dark Spot almost of a quadrangular form. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. xiii. I. 396 The form was quadrangular, flanked with sixteen towers. 1784Cowper Task iv. 217 With spots quadrangular of diamond form. 1849Grote Greece ii. lviii. VII. 227 The lower part was left as a quadrangular pillar. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. iii. 47 The little quadrangular garden.
Comb.1656Heylin Surv. France 74 A house built quadrangular wise. 1854Poultry Chron. I. 431 It is a spacious, quadrangular-shaped house, built of a greyish stone.
Hence quaˈdrangularly adv., in the manner of a quadrangle; with four corners. quaˈdrangularness, the state or fact of being quadrangular (Bailey, vol. II, 1727).
1708Ozell tr. Boileau's Lutrin ii. (1730) 125 An inverted Cone..Sharp pointed, and quadrangularly long. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 322 Quadrangularly prismatic crystals. |