Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Well-proportioned.
- noun Old spellings of treatise. Chaucer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A treatise; also, a treaty.
- adjective obsolete Long and well-proportioned; nicely made; pretty.
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Examples
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[19] In the MSS. this is called: A pystyll of discrecion in knowenge of spirites; or: A tretis of discrescyon of spirites.
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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Englisshe mile out of Boys, seint Vyncent token a strong abbeie with tretis.
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Ye maye take apart an astrolabe and undirstond the natur of yts operacioun (and Ich have a smal tretis on that topique ywrit), but ther ys a maner of rough cloth that covereth the good fayre fruit of the world of fayerye, the which nat the gretest historian, nor even the joyned myghte of every historyan that ever did a footnote wryte, kan teare apart (thogh thei be mighty at arm-wrestling).
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Composites.] ¶ The auctor of þis tretis dep {ar} tys þis worde a nomb {ur} into 3
The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902
fbharjo commented on the word tretis
tretis a well-proportioned, graceful word
January 13, 2007