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QUADRILLE.
reckoning quadriliterals) to exist [etc.]. 1839 PAULI Anal.
Hebr. xxviii. 205 The so-called Quadri- and Quinti- literals
are compounds [etc.]. 1864 PUSEY Left. Daniel^d On the
principle of reducing the words to quadriliterals. 1874 SAYCE
Compar. Philol. ii. . . 78 Quadriliterals for the most part have
extended a vowel into a liquid.
Quadrille (see next), j-i.l Also 8 quadrill.
[a. F. quadrille (1725); referred by Littre to It.
quadriglio of the same meaning, but by Hatz.-
Darm. said to be ad. Sp. cuartillo, the form in F.
being due to association with quadrille, Sp. cuadrilla
(see next).] A card-game played by four
persons with forty cards, the eights, nines, and tens
of the ordinary pack being discarded, t Also
fl.
Quadritie began to take the place of ombre as the fashion-.
able card game about 1726, and was in turn superseded by
whist.
1736 in Suffolk Corr. (1824) I. 257 Sir T. Coke . .
[etc.]
.
wrangle at Quadrille. 1768 in Priv. Lett. /. Obs. rare-
Quadrrlle, 1 foliate. 1870 BENTLEY Bot. 164.
,
[f. QDADBILLE
tQuadrine 1 . Obs. rare. Also -in.
[a.
obs. F.
quaarin (It. quadrino), var. of quatrin QUATBINE.]
A small copper coin ; a farthing.
X557 N. T. (Genev.) Mark xii. 42 And there came a certayne
poore wydow, and she threw in two mytes which make
a quadnn. 1579-80 NORTH Plutarch 722 One of her
(R.)
paramours sent her a purse full of quadrines (which are
little pieces of copper money) instead of silver.
1
I Obs.
Quadrine'-'.
rare- . [For QUADBAN or
QUADBANT, on anal, of TBINE.] Quartile aspect.
1638 WITHER Brit. Rememb. v. 1050 In Sextile, or in
Quadrine, or in Trine.
t Quadringena-riouB, a. Obs. rare , [ad.
L. quadringenari-its , f. quadringeni four hundred
'
'
each.] That contains four hundred (Blonnt
Glossogr. 1656).
Quadripartite (kwgdripa'Jtsit),
a. and sb.
Also 7 -partit; 6 quadri-, 6-7 quadrapertite ;
6-8 quadrupartite, (6 -pertite). [ad. L. quadripartit-us,
f. quadri- QOADBI- + pa. pple. oifartiri
to divide, PART.]
A. adj. 1. Divided into, or consisting of, four
parts. Now chiefly in Sot., Zool., and Arch.
Quadripartite vault, one divided into four converging
compartments ; so q uadriparte groining.
1433-50 tr. Higden (Rolls) III. xix That kynge Nabugodonosor
hade a dreame of a quadripartite ymage. 1570
LEVINS Manip. 151/43 Quadripartite, quadripartitus. 1612
SELDEN Illustr. Drayton's Poly^ilb. iv. 215 Wks. 1876 I.
115 Frederic Ill's institution of the quadripartite Society
of S. George's shield. 1768-74 TUCKER Lt. Nat. (1834) II.
464 The quadripartite discourse upon Phil. ii. 6. 1849
FREEMAN Archil. 246 The aisles of large churches are
almost always covered with plain quadripartite vaulting.
1875 BENNETT & DYER tr. Sachs' Bot. 584 The tubular re-
. . ceptacle is even quadripartite, corresponding to the four
perianth-leaves and to the four stamens.
b. spec. Of a contract, indenture, etc. : Drawn
Quadrivial (kwgdri-vial), a. and sb. Forms :
5 quadrivialle, -vail, 5-6 quatrivial, quadryuyall(e,
7 quadruviall. [ad. med.L. quadrivialis;
see QDADBTVIUM, and -AL. Cf. OF. quadruvial
(Godef.).]
A. adj. 1. Having four roads or ways meeting
in a point. Of roads : Leading in four directions.
a 1490 BOTONER /fin. (Nasmith 1778) 177 Wythynne the
yate liii quadry vyalle weyes. a B.
1637^ JONSON To Intgo
Marquis He [may] draw a forum with quadrivial streets.
1863 THOREAU Excurs. (1863) 171 A trivial or quadrivial
place. 1890 O. CRAWFURD Round the Calendar in Portugal
303 Passing one day through the quadrivial square that
lies beneath the clengos tower.
1 2. Belonging to the QUADBIVIUM. Obs.
c 1430 Pallad. on Hush. Proem 76 The . . philosophre thus
prompt to profre Vche art quadriuial. 1481 BOTONER Tulle
on Old Age (Caxton), Light sciences called trivals, as be
grammar, logyk, and rethorik in comparison of the quadri.
vail sciences, c 1495 The Epitaffe, etc. in Skellon's Wks.
(1843) II. 390 Frendely him fostered quatriuial aliaunce.
1 3. Quadrilateral. Obs. rare.
1540 BOORDE The take for to Lernt Biii, Deuyde the
lodgynges by the cyrcuyte of the quadryuyall courte. Ibid.,
If there be an vtter courte made, make it quadryuyall with
howses of easementes.
B. sb. f 1- A group of four. Obs. rare ~'.
1432-50 tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 5 The triuialle of the vertues
theologicalle and quadriuialle [L. quadrivium} of the cardinalle
vertues.
2. //. The four sciences constituting the QUAD-
BIVIUK. Now only Hist.
1533 SKELTON Why not to Court 511 A poore maister of
arte. .had lytell pane Of the quatriuials Nor yet of triuials.
1577 HARRISON England IL Hi. (1877) I. 78 The quadriuials
. . (I meane arethmetike, musike, geometric, and astronomic).
a.1656 HALES Gold. Rein. (1688) 357 Tnvials and Quadrivials
as old clerks were wont to name them. 1716 M.
DAVIES A then. Brit. 1 1. 92 Edward . . Seymour was educated
in Trivial*, and partly in Quadrivials in Oxon. 1886
BRODRICK Hist. Univ. Oxford 64 These seven sciences
were no other than the old Trivial* and Quadrivials.
Quadrivious (kwgdri-viss), a. rare. [cf.
prec. and -ODS.] Going in four directions.
1860 READE Cloister fy H. III. 34 Denys . . pretended to
shoot them all dead : they fled quadrivious. shrieking.
[| Quadrivium (kwgdri-vitfm). [L. (f. quadri-
QUADBI- + via way), a place where four ways
meet ; in late L., the four branches of mathema-
tics (Boethius).] In the Middle Ages, the higher
division of the seven liberal arts, comprising the
mathematical sciences (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy,
and music).
1804 RANKIN Hist. France III. iv. 308 Arithmetic, music,
geometry, and astronomy formed Quadrivium. 1843 MRS.
BROWNING Grk. Chr. Poets (1863) 123 The trivium and
quadrivium of the schools. 1873 LOWELL Dante Pr. Wks.
1890 IV. 124 There can be no doubt that he went through
the trivium.. and the quadrivium. .of the then ordinary
university course.
|| Quadro. Obs. rare~l . [It. quadra, a square,
a ?
picture.] A square of tapestry.
01711 KEN EdmundVtxI.. Wks. 1721 II. 273 Her Palace
was with glorious Quadro's lin'd, Made by her Virgins, by
herself design'd.
Quadro-. A less correct form of QDADBI-.
t Quadro-bulary, a. Obs. ran-'. A pp. =
'
fourfold with ', suggestion of TKIOBOLAB(Y a.
There is a quadrobulary
1647 WARD Simp. CMer 48
saying, which passes current in the Westerne World [etc. ].
f Quadrohydrate. Chem. Obs. A compound
containing four times as much water as a simple
hydrate.