Recent Examples on the WebFrom the treatises of antiquity to the novels of Jane Austen to the economics of Thomas Piketty, writers of all sorts have understood the overlap between unions of soul and contracts of need.—Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 29 June 2024 Ruddick’s text is part philosophical treatise, part cultural theory, and part first-person inquiry into the experience of motherhood.—Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2024 Paleontologist Charles Doolittle Wolcott first encountered fossils of Pikaia in the Burgess Shale deposits of British Columbia, dating to 508 million years ago, and described them in a 1911 treatise.—Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 24 June 2024 Thinking 6 books on the occult and mysticism Biographies, treatises and stories on the occult and its strange cast of characters.—Big Think, 24 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for treatise
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English tretis, from Anglo-French tretiz, alteration of tretez, traitet, from Medieval Latin tractatus, from Latin tractare to treat, handle
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