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Webster 1913 Edition

Tractate

Tract′ate

,
Noun.
[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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Tractate

TRACT'ATE

,
Noun.
[L. tractatus.] A treatise; a tract. [Not now in use.]

Definition 2024

tractate

tractate

English

Noun

tractate ‎(plural tractates)

  1. a treatise

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Translations

Latin

Verb

tractāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of tractō

References

Etymology

From Latin tractātus, past participle of tractō ‎(“discuss”), the iterative or frequentative of trahō.

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