rare. [n. of action from mod.L. cubāre to cube (used or assumed): See -ATION.] = CUBATURE.

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1727–51.  Chambers, Cycl., Cubature or Cubation, of a solid.

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1887.  Q. Rev., April, 441. He [Hobbes] had collected into one volume his quadrature of the circle, cubation of the sphere, and duplication of the cube.

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