quaternare

quaternare [ML =to bind quires < CL quaternus+-are], quarternare [cf. ME quartern], quateronare [cf. quatronus, ME quateron, quatron] 1 to divide into four parts, to quarter; b (person, as final stage of execution); c (her., coat of arms). si Trinitatem racio quaternaret / pars tibi quarta merito largiretur J. Howd. Cant. 664.  b s1346 suspensus, decapitatus, evisceratus et ~atus Ad. Mur. Chr. app. 253.  c 13‥ item habeat scuta listata flosculis, avibus, bestiunculis, quaturnata, moncellata, lambata rosis (Nominale) Neues Archiv IV 342; induti tunicis viridibus quarum quarta pars brachii dexteri crocei coloris fuit, quasi fuissent per predictos patrem et filium quateronati (Reg.) Hist. Roff. f. 35. 2 to make quires. to make quayrs [v. l. quayris], ~are CathA.