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squared, ppl. a.|skwɛəd|
[f. square v.]
1. a. Made or fashioned square; reduced to a square form. Also with off.
1382Wyclif 1 Kings vi. 35 And alle he couerde with goldyn platis, with squaryd werk at rewle. c1410Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xiv, A grehounde shulde haue..þe thies gret and swared [Bodl. MS. squared] as an hare. 1416York Memo. Bk. (Surtees) I. 213 Pur overer et faire.. flat salere, cowped salere, sqward salere. 1520in Archaeol. (1892) LIII. 18 A pyxe of Every..havyng a squared steple yn the topp. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 106 b, The squared, and the round, or the whole timber. 1656Rites of Durh. (1903) 84 A fair Ivory squared table covered with a green cloth. 1685Temple Ess. Her. Virtue Wks. 1720 I. 211 Another very long and large [highway], paved all with cut or squared Stone. 1707Sibbald Scotland (1739) i. 28 A Wall of squared and cut Stones. 1778Encycl. Brit. (ed. 2) II. 1389/2 It is all of squared free stone, strong and lofty. 1809Campbell Gert. Wyom. iii. xviii, Deep roars the innavigable gulf below Its squared rock. 1869Rankine Machine & Hand-tools Pl. H 6, The screw, Z, which is likewise formed with a squared end to receive a winch handle or key. 1875Carpentry & Join. 126 There can be 18 in. of the squared support above the pedestal. 1965J. A. Michener Source (1966) 580 No square corners would be allowed, no neatly squared-off towers. 1973D. May Laughter in Djakarta v. 83 Tapping some magazines into a squared-off pile.
fig.1586J. 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. 1594Selimus 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.
1667Milton P.L. i. 758 Thir summons call'd From every Band and squared Regiment By place or choice the worthiest. 1798in Unit. Services Mag. XIX. 464 They rushed on against our squared battalions. 1807J. Barlow Columb. iii. 581 The troops in squared array Wait the wild hordes loose huddling to the fray. 1812Cary Dante, Purg. xxiv. 64 Like as the birds, that winter near the Nile, In squared regiment direct their course.
c. Marked with squares.
1887Science 11 Mar. 240/1 The graphic representation of the results will be readily understood. It is only necessary to take a sheet of ‘squared’ paper, or paper ruled in two directions at right angles to each other. 1902Westm. Gaz. 21 June 3/1 Take on the squared paper two perpendicular lines.
2. Multiplied by itself. Also fig.
1557Recorde Whetst. G iv, That roote is called a Squared square roote, which maketh a square of squares in nomber. 1571Digges Pantom. iv. xi. Y ij b, For the superficies ye shall augmente the squared square of the side by 3. 1613J. Tapp Pathw. Knowl. 293 A squared square number is the product of any number multiplyed 3 times into it selfe. 1664E. Bushnell Compl. Shipwright 31, 5 times 5 is a squared number. 1787Phil. Trans. LXXVII. 228 The 4th power, or squared squares of the sines of the latitudes. 1964J. W. Linnett Electronic Struct. Molecules vi. 92 There will be five squared-terms..and twenty cross-terms..in the square of the total function. 1979Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 20 Sept. 11a/1, I don't know if tarantulas are considered insects or just some form of spider..squared.
3. Adapted, suited. rare.
1698Fryer 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 † ˈsquaredly adv. Obs. rare.
1613J. Tapp Pathw. Knowl. 322 Sq. of squ. squaredly square. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 272 A..Square of Squares Squaredly Squared. Ibid. 645 The Quotient shall be squaredly Quadratical. |