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Webster 1913 Edition
Treatise
1.
A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract.
Chaucer.
He published a
treatise
in which he maintained that a marriage between a member of the Church of England and a dissenter was a nullity. Macaulay.
☞ A treatise implies more form and method than an essay, but may fall short of the fullness and completeness of a systematic exposition.
2.
Story; discourse.
[R.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Treatise
TRE'ATISE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
treatise
treatise
English
Noun
treatise (plural treatises)
- A formal, usually lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject.
- 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:
- “[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps ? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic ? […]”
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 232d.
- And if someone wants to know how to make objections to actual craftsmen themselves on the subject of art in general or any particular art, there are published treatises available, as you know.
- 2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
- Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
- 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:
Translations
systematic discourse on some subject
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Synonyms
- dissertation
- disquisition
- monograph
- treatment (informal explanation, usually in essay form)