tractate
- noun
- /ˈtrækteɪt/
- Formal
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tratado
- In late-fifteenth-century Würzburg, a tractate on "the perils of the eucharist" maintained: "It is a periculum to the host if the figure of flesh or a child or any other thing appears in it."
Examples
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The scholar published a tractate discussing the ethical implications of artificial intelligence.
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7. St. Augustine, Tractate on the Gospel of John, 28-54, vol. 88 of TFC (Washington: Catholic U of America P, 1993) 250.
Fiction book (1996) -
There must be a law or something, a tractate...
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Another kind of reversal deserves note: the contemptus mundi tractates that flourished in waves throughout medieval Europe, first in Latin, then in the vernacular.
Academic text (2002) -
On the way home, I was reading Donald Richie's little zinger of a book, A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics (much to the dismay of sales reps around the country, he insisted on the word tractate).
Blog text (24) -
On the way home, I was reading Donald Richie's little zinger of a book, A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics (much to the dismay of sales reps around the country, he insisted on the word tractate).
Blog text (24) -
This logic is strongly exegetical, but in a wider canonical sense than the simple commentative reading found in the tractates on John (which I will employ sparingly to clarify points of De Trinitate).
Academic text (2007) -
He referred to his favorite tractate on ancient philosophy during the lecture.
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In her thesis, she included several references to important tractates on religious studies.
Synonyms
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8.4
A long, detailed written work that explains a subject
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7.9
A small printed paper that gives information about one subject
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9.3
A long, detailed written study about one subject, often by one author
A short pamphlet that gives information or argues a point
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tractate comes from the old Latin word tractare, which means 'to handle' or 'to treat', and is like the English words treatise and tract. So a tractate is a written work that 'handles' a subject carefully.