a. Also 8 quadri-. [f. mod.L. quadruman-us (see QUADRUMANA) + -OUS.] Belonging to the order of QUADRUMANA; four-handed.
[1699. E. Tyson, Orang-Outang, I. 91. Our Pygmie is … tho’ a Biped, yet of the Quadrumanus-kind. Ibid., 94. The Orang-Outang … being Quadrumanus, like the Ape-kind.]
1819. W. Lawrence, Lect. Physiol. Zool., 128. All the simiæ, and the lemurs likewise, are quadrumanous.
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol., I. 152. Not a single bone of a quadrumanous animal has ever yet been discovered in a fossil state.
1860. Emerson, Cond. Life, Fate, Wks. (Bohn), II. 317. He betrays his relation to what is below him—small-brained, fishy, quadrumanous quadruped.
1874. Wood, Nat. Hist., 2. The Quadrumanous, or Four-handed animals, are familiarly known by the titles of Apes, Baboons, and Monkeys.
b. Ape-like (in destructiveness).
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., Wks. V. 308. At this malicious game they display the whole of their quadrimanous activity.
