tractate

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from tractātus
  2. inherited from tractate

Definitions

  1. A treatise.

    • an abstruse tractate on black magic

The neighborhood

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