treaty
nounEtymology
The noun is derived from Middle English trete, trety (“bargaining, negotiation; discussion; conference, meeting; entreaty, persuasion; agreement, contract, covenant; arrangement, settlement; agreement between two rulers, states, etc.; written work on a particular subject, treatise; subdivision of a written work, section”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman treté, traité, treaté, and Old French traité, traitié [and other forms] (modern French traité (“agreement between two rulers, states, etc.; treatise”)); traité or traitié is: * a noun use of the past participle of traiter (“to treat; to deal with, handle”), from Latin tractāre, the present active infinitive of tractō (“to drag, haul, tug; to handle, manage; to debate, discuss; to exercise, practise; to perform, transact”), from trahō (“to drag, pull”) + -tō (frequentative suffix); and * also from Latin tractātum (“written work on a particular subject, treatise”), from Latin tractātus (“dragged, hauled, tugged; handled, managed; exercised, practised; performed, transacted”), the perfect passive participle of tractō (see above). The verb is derived from the noun.
Definitions
A formal binding agreement concluded by subjects of international law, namely, states and…
A formal binding agreement concluded by subjects of international law, namely, states and international organizations; a convention, a pact.
- to sign a peace treaty
- to write up a treaty touching climate change
Chiefly in in treaty
Chiefly in in treaty: discussions or negotiations in order to reach an agreement.
- To a meeting of the executors of late Viscˢˢᵉ Mordaunt's estate, to consider of the sale of Parsons Greene; being in treaty with Mr. Loftus, and to settle the halfe yeare's account.
Chiefly in private treaty
Chiefly in private treaty: an agreement or settlement reached following negotiations; a compact, a contract, a covenant.
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The manner or process of treating someone or something
The manner or process of treating someone or something; treatment; also, the manner in which someone or something acts or behaves; behaviour.
- Hoſ[t]. They call me Good-ſtock. / Lov[el]. Sir, and you confeſſe it, / Both i'your language, treaty, and your bearing.
The addressing or consideration of a subject
The addressing or consideration of a subject; discussion, treatment.
A formal, systematic discourse on some subject
A formal, systematic discourse on some subject; a treatise.
An act of beseeching or entreating
An act of beseeching or entreating; an entreaty, a plea, a request.
- Now I must / To the young man ſend humble Treaties, dodge / And palter in the ſhifts of lovvnes, vvho / VVith halfe the bulke o' th' vvorld plaid as I pleas'd, / Making, and marring Fortunes.
To get into (a specific situation) through a treaty.
To enter into a treaty.
The neighborhood
- neighborentreat
- neighborentreating
- neighborentreatingly
- neighborentreative
- neighborentreatment
- neighborentreaty
- neighbortractate
- neighbortrait
- neighbortreat
- neighbortreatable
- neighbortreatableness
- neighbortreatably
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at treaty. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at treaty. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at treaty
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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