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traicter

traicter

Middle French

Verb

traicter

  1. to treat (a certain way)
    • 1534, François Rabelais, Gargantua:
      Ce fait, Gymnaste se retyre, considerant que les cas de hazart iamais ne fault poursuyvre iusques a leur periode et qu'il convient a tous chevaliers reverentement traicter leur bonne fortune
      This done, Gymnast left, considering that one should never follow a fluke to the end of its process, and that all knights should treat their good luck modestly.
  2. (of a topic) to treat
    • 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais, book II, chapter 10:
      il faut feuilleter sans distinction toutes sortes d’autheurs et vieils et nouveaux, et barragouins et François, pour y apprendre les choses, dequoy diversement ils traictent.

Conjugation

  • Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

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