Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A treatise; an essay.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A treatise; a tract.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A treatise; a tract; an essay.
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- noun a
treatise
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tibble ensconced himself in the innermost corner with a "tractate," borrowed from his friend Lucas, and sent the apprentices to gaze their fill at the rapidly filling circles of seats.
The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Each seder deals with a certain area (agriculture, marriage, the Temple); each seder is comprised of masechtos (plural of masechah, meaning "tractate"), and each masechah usually deals with a specific issue (marriage, slaves, property).
Muslihoon 2008
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"tractate," borrowed from his friend Lucas, and sent the apprentices to gaze their fill at the rapidly filling circles of seats.
The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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In fact the Talmud, in tractate Brachot 26b, states that morning prayers were instituted by Abraham in that very spot of prayerful protest.
Ari Hart: Holding God Accountable: Faith And Disaster Ari Hart 2011
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In fact the Talmud, in tractate Brachot 26b, states that morning prayers were instituted by Abraham in that very spot of prayerful protest.
Ari Hart: Holding God Accountable: Faith And Disaster Ari Hart 2011
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Similarly, the Talmud's treatment of labor relations tractate Baba Metzia is not readily translatable into a simplistic distinction between capitalism and socialism.
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The tractate is full of details of interest in the history of obstetrics, gynecology and sexuality.
Niddah, Tractate. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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The most important textual witness is Antonine, an early Genizah fragment which covers nearly all the tractate (Meacham).
Niddah, Tractate. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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The literary character of the tractate links with a brief item from the time of Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel (first century c.e.).
Kinnim (Tractate). 2009
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She herself taught Pirkei Avot (Avot, a tractate in the Mishnah) and frequently sat in on classes being taught by other teachers.
Chana Shpitzer. 2009
yarb commented on the word tractate
A peacock and his hen trailed their shabby finery across the turf of the lower lawn. Odious birds! Their necks, thick and greedily fleshy at the roots, tapered up to the cruel inanity of their brainless heads, their flat eyes and piercing beaks. The fabulists were right, he reflected, when they took beasts to illustrate their tractates of human morality.
- Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
March 29, 2008
reesetee commented on the word tractate
Okay, maybe they're not very smart. But they sure are purty.
March 29, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word tractate
"Cruel inanity"? Dang, Aldous, why you got so much hate?!
March 29, 2008
john commented on the word tractate
“An entire tractate, or volume, of the Talmud deals with the eruv.”
The New York Times, A Jewish Ritual Collides With Mother Nature, by Samuel G. Freedman, March 5, 2010
March 6, 2010