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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Treat \Treat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Treated}; p. pr & vb n.
{Treating}.] [{OE}. treten, OF traitier F. traiter, from L.
tractare to draw violently, to handle, manage, treat, v.
intens. from trahere tractum to draw. See {Trace}, v. t.,
and cf {Entreat}, {Retreat}, {Trait}.]
1. To handle; to manage; to use to bear one's self toward;
as to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.
2. To discourse on to handle in a particular manner, in
writing or speaking; as to treat a subject diffusely.
3. To entertain with food or drink, especially the latter, as
a compliment, or as an expression of friendship or regard;
as to treat the whole company.
4. To negotiate; to settle; to make terms for [Obs.]
To treat the peace, a hundred senators Shall be
commissioned. --Dryden.
5. (Med.) To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in
the use of remedies or appliances; as to treat a disease,
a wound, or a patient.
6. To subject to some action to apply something to as to
treat a substance with sulphuric acid. --Ure.
7. To entreat; to beseech. [Obs.] --Ld. Berners
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
treated
adj 1: subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or
agent; "the sludge of treated sewage can be used as
fertilizer"; "treated timbers resist rot"; "treated
fabrics resist wrinkling" [ant: {untreated}]
2: (of a specimen for study under a microscope) treated with a
reagent or dye that colors only certain structures
3: given medical care or treatment; "a treated cold is usually
gone in 14 days; if left untreated it lasts two weeks"
[ant: {untreated}]
4: made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat
treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
[syn: {tempered}, {hardened}, {toughened}] [ant: {untempered}]
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