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tractate


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tractate  \Tract"ate\,  n.  [L.  tractatus  a  touching,  handling, 
  treatise.  See  Tractable,  and  {Tract}  a  treatise,  {Treaty}.] 
  A  treatise;  a  tract;  an  essay. 
 
  Agreeing  in  substance  with  Augustin's,  from  whose 
  fourteenth  Tractate  on  St  John  the  words  are 
  translated.  --Hare.