tractate
tractate · tractates
A treatiseA treatise.
Meaning
1 sensesA treatise.
an abstruse tractate on black magic
Origin
From Middle English tractate, from Latin tractātus, past participle of tractō (“discuss”),From Middle English tractate, from Latin tractātus, past participle of tractō (“discuss”), the iterative or frequentative of trahō. Doublet of treaty.
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