quadrates

Both objects he took to be something like flat quadrates.

The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. William T. Preyer 1869

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.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

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.

Reason and Faith; Their Claims and Conflicts From The Edinburgh Review, October 1849, Volume 90, No. CLXXXII. (Pages 293-356) Henry Rogers 1841

Of Kant's philosophy it is a capital praise, that its very opening section -- that section which treats the question of space, not only quadrates with the facts of geometry, but also, by the _subjective_ character which it attributes to space, is the very first philosophic scheme which explains and accounts for the cogency of geometrical evidence.

The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822

Again, the description in the seventh verse, "he was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth," quadrates with no part of the Jewish history with which we are acquainted.

Evidence of Christianity William Paley 1774

Nature is governed by a cause whose intelligence is conformable to his own, to whom he ascribes the honor of the order which he believes he witnesses -- of those views that fall in with those that are peculiar to himself -- of an aim which quadrates with that which is the great end of all his own actions.

The System of Nature, Volume 1 Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 1756

-- 'Tis but comparing the spider to us brave fellows, and it quadrates.

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 Samuel Richardson 1725

As you see from these diagrams [from Gaffney (1977)], it's really broad across the palate, quadrates and otic capsules (in fact, the skull is about as broad as it is long), and very flattened overall, particularly in the facial region.

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Most of the fables of AEsop have diverse senses and meanings, of which the mythologists chose some one that quadrates well to the fable; but, for the most part, 'tis but the first face that presents itself and is superficial only; there yet remain others more vivid, essential, and profound, into which they have not been able to penetrate; and just so 'tis with me.

The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 10 Michel de Montaigne 1562

Most of the fables of AEsop have diverse senses and meanings, of which the mythologists chose some one that quadrates well to the fable; but, for the most part, 'tis but the first face that presents itself and is superficial only; there yet remain others more vivid, essential, and profound, into which they have not been able to penetrate; and just so 'tis with me.

The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562