Treatise

The definitive treatise was written by someone with no formal education in the subject.

At the age of twenty-one he wrote a treatise upon the Binomial Theorem, which has had a European vogue.

Tom just finished writing a 300-page treatise on demography.

Tom's "treatise" was little more than a racist diatribe.

Your artless attempt at a treatise is more like a diatribe.

Tom's treatise is beyond reproach.

The story that Anaxagoras wrote a treatise on perspective as applied to scene-painting is most improbable; and the statement that he composed a mathematical work dealing with the quadrature of the circle is due to misunderstanding of an expression in Plutarch.

But Cicero does not seem even to have had a religious sentiment to cover the nakedness of his political opportunism. Not only does he in the Tusculan Disputations put aside in the Platonic fashion all the Homeric tales which anthropomorphize and discredit the gods; but in his treatise On Divination he shows an absolute disbelief in all the recognized practices, including the augury which he himself officially practised; and his sole excuse is that they are to be retained “on account of popular opinion and of their great public utility.”

"What did you want to talk to me about?" "It was about a sentence in that treatise of yours, but I'd read it wrongly. It's all clear to me now."

"As you cannot make a speech, you must," said Henrietta, "put it into a treatise."