treatise
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- noun
- /ˈtriːtɪs/
- Formal
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tratado
- In his treatise on democracy, the author explores the role of citizens in government.
- write a treatise
- philosophical treatise
- alchemical treatises
It's exceptional, but it's a beautiful treatise on dreaming and lucid dreaming.
- It's exceptional, but it's a beautiful treatise on dreaming and lucid dreaming.
- Let's look back to the very opening pages of Mill's treatise on utilitarianism.
- I might do some on Saint Bernard and his treatise on Love of God.
- Or Amartya Sen makes the same claim in his great treatise on freedom and development.
- This lengthy, unfinished treatise was much more radical than Muravyov's constitution.
- This lengthy, unfinished treatise was much more radical than Moraviov's constitution.
- He in fact, there's a story that when he wanted to learn how to swim, he read a book, a treatise on swimming, then dove into the ocean.
- Now this wonderful treatise describes, amongst other things, gadgets which use friction gears, wheels that can transmit movement to other gears edge to edge.
Examples
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The first big treatise in metaphysics is Aristotle's Metaphysics.
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A treatise on co-ed education.
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Have you read his treatise on suicide?
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I could write a better treatise on sculpture myself.
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I was impressed with your treatise on the Roman rituals.
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"I'm a professor of English literature at a university in the States, doing a treatise on the village novel."
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Or Amartya Sen makes the same claim in his great treatise on freedom and development.
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The concept of time has been the subject of many treatises from several perspectives for many centuries.
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It's exceptional, but it's a beautiful treatise on dreaming and lucid dreaming.
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That's John Locke's Treatises of Government.
Synonyms
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A long piece of writing based on research for a university degree
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A long piece of writing for a university degree that shows the writer's research and results
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A long, detailed written study about one subject, often by one author
A long written work about a serious or religious subject
Long, careful books that explain complex subjects from the Middle Ages
A short pamphlet that gives information or argues a point
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Treatise comes from a root that means 'to handle' or 'to deal with', and it is related to the common verb treat. So a treatise is a long, formal piece of writing that carefully 'handles' or explains a subject.