Tractate

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A treatise.

    "an abstruse tractate on black magic"

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apercuarticlecauseriedescantdiscoursediscussion

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"an abstruse tractate on black magic"

Etymology

From Middle English tractate, from Latin tractātus, past participle of tractō (“discuss”), the iterative or frequentative of trahō. Doublet of treaty.

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