||Quad"ra (?), n.; pl. QuadrÊ (#). [L., a square, the socle, a
||platband, a fillet.] (Arch.) (a) The plinth, or lowest member, of any
||pedestal, podium, water table, or the like. (b) A fillet, or listel.
Quad"ra*ble (?), a.[See Quadrate.] (Math.) That may be sqyared, or
reduced to an equivalent square; -- said of a surface when the area
limited by a curve can be exactly found, and expressed in a finite
number of algebraic terms.
Quad`ra*ge*na"ri*ous (?), a. [L. quadragenarius, fr. qyadrageni forty
each.] Consisting of forty; forty years old.
Quad"ra*gene (?), n. [LL. quadragena, fr. L. quadrageni forty each,
akin to quadraginta forty.] (R. C. Ch.) An indulgence of forty days,
corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.
||Quad`ra*ges"i*ma (?), n. [L., fr. quadragesimus the fortieth, fr.
||quadraginta forty; akin to quattuor four. See Four.] (Eccl.) The
||forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent.
Quadragesima Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent, about forty days before
Easter.
Quad`ra*ges"i*mal (?), a. [Cf. F. quadragÈsimal.] Belonging to Lent;
used in Lent; Lenten.
Quad`ra*ges"i*mals (?), n. pl. Offerings formerly made to the mother
church of a diocese on Mid- Lent Sunday.
Quad"ran`gle (?), n. [F., fr. L. quadrangulum; quattuor four + angulus
an angle. See Four, and Angle a corner.]
1. (Geom.) A plane figure having four angles, and consequently four
sides; any figure having four angles.
2. A square or quadrangular space or inclosure, such a space or court
surrounded by buildings, esp. such a court in a college or public
school in England.
Quad*ran"gu*lar (?), a. [Cf. F. quadrangulaire.] Having four angles,
and consequently four sides; tetragonal. -- Quad*ran"gu*lar*ly, adv.
||Quad"rans (?), n.; pl. Quadrantes (#). [L.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A fourth
||part of the coin called an as. See 3d As, 2.