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treatise

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Word definitions for treatise in dictionaries

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A treatise is a formal and systematic written discourse on some subject, generally longer and treating it in greater depth than an essay , and more concerned with investigating or exposing the principles of the subject.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A formal, usually lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB publish ▪ What broke the medieval guilds was printing; some one could publish a treatise on how to tan leather. write ▪ I do not think that writing treatises and declarations is helpful. ▪ Those who lament that Berlin ...

Usage examples of treatise.

I have ever conversed, or whose treatises I have read, are firmly convinced that the several breeds to which each has attended, are descended from so many aboriginally distinct species.

At my request, Ysandre had several volumes sent from the Royal Library, texts on Alba and books in Cruithne, and treatises on the Master of the Straits.

Weeks having written an ingenious and excellent treatise on the treatment of the bee, we freely recommend his book to the attention of every apiarian who wishes to succeed in their management.

Internet treatise on poisons in general and sodium azide in particular.

Had he not in his bureau a manuscript treatise on the relations of art and morals which, when he re-read it, astounded him by its acumen and wit, and a manuscript poem on the doings of Cardinal Beatoun which he could not honestly deem inferior to the belauded verse of Mr Walter Scott!

While I do not intend what follows to be a comprehensive treatise about biochem weapons, I do want to provide an accurate foundation onto which you can continue to add new information.

Mr Boffin put down his treatise on the nature of Franchises, which he was studying in order that he might lead an opposition against the Ministry next Session, and even Sir Timothy Beeswax, who had done his work with Sir Orlando, joined the throng.

Vonier had had good reason for his admiration for and his disagreement with Carberry, the financier, over a treatise Carberry had written.

For further information, the reader is referred to the authors cited or to any of the standard treatises on teratology.

When he was not toiling at the cuckoo-clock factory, most of his spare time was spent either in his workshop or at the public library poring laboriously over treatises on genetics, cytology, cytogenetics, biochemistry, and any number of other subjects he did not understand-but which his subconscious absorbed very effectively indeed.

We hear it in practical discourses from the pulpit, and read it in doctrinal treatises, as offensively proclaimed now as ever.

Denmeade, nor reading over some half-forgotten treatises relative to her work, interested her to the point of dismissing Edd Denmeade from mind.

In an open-minded world, this discovery, he imagined, would have every Mormon-basher and every Utah-basher eating their words, and every scavenging journalist would forget about the Mark Hof- manns and the Ervil Lebarons and the Bruce Longos and the Paul Singers and would be writing treatises about the rightful restoration of the true Church of Jesus Christ.

The treatise on the Euroclydon was designed to vindicate the common reading of Acts, xxvii.

Its treatises were mostly rhetorical gobbledygook that provided little basis for concrete action.