TRACTATE

tractate. tractate, a treatise, or booke, handling any matter

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tractate. Tractate, n. a tract, treatise, essay, small book

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Tract″ate (?), n. [[L. tractatus a touching, handling, treatise. See Tractable, and Tract a treatise, Treaty.]] A treatise; a tract; an essay. Agreeing in substance with Augustin's, from whose fourteenth Tractate on St. John the words are translated. Hare.