Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A systematic, usually extensive written discourse on a subject.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Discourse; talk; tale.
- noun A written composition in which the principles of a particular subject are discussed or explained.
- noun A treaty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract.
- noun rare Story; discourse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
formal , usuallylengthy ,systematic discourse on somesubject .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a formal exposition
Etymologies
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Ruskin, having formed the pleasant little original design of abolishing the difference between Popery and Protestantism, through the persuasive influence of his own special eloquence, set forth his views upon the matter in a book which he termed a treatise "on the construction of sheepfolds."
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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Watin's treatise is included s.v. Peinture, 6: 239 – 57 (plus plates?).
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Whatever he should be called, de Massoul's treatise is now a regularly-cited source for information about eighteenth-century painters 'practice.
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Their treatise is one of the most detailed of the half dozen or so in my possession and the one which mentions numbers of nineteenth century ganaderos whose names are still fairly common currency today.
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Their treatise is one of the most detailed of the half dozen or so in my possession and the one which mentions numbers of nineteenth century ganaderos whose names are still fairly common currency today.
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Zimmermann, _Die europaischen Kolonien_, the main German treatise, in 5 vols. (1896-1903), dealing with Spain and Portugal (Vol. I), Great
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923
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Although he calls the treatise in which he addresses himself to this endeavour St. Paul and Protestantism, therein following Renan's phraseology, in the treatise itself he speaks rather of St. Paul and Puritanism; and this he does because here in England Puritanism is the strong and special representation of Protestantism.
Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904
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Although he calls the treatise in which he addresses himself to this endeavour _St.
Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886
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The only article which can be called a treatise is the Astronomer Royal's "Gravitation," founded on the method of
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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This is not a treatise, in other words, but a sketchbook that moves from the personal to the philosophical, evoking Koestenbaum's own humiliations the book ends with a long list of them as well as those of the wider world.
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