Find the word definition

Crossword clues for treating

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Treating

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.

Wiktionary
treating

n. treatment vb. (present participle of treat English)

Wikipedia
Treating

Treating, in law, is the act of serving food, drink, and other refreshments to influence people for political gain.

In various countries, treating is considered a crucial act of kindness, for instance, Eric treats Jessica, Michelle, Megan and Natalie for lunch .

NZ Legislation Online

Treating, in a social context, came about with the birth of leisure time in the late nineteenth century. Young working class women took pride in going out and enjoying the city’s “cheap amusements”. Some notable cheap amusements included public dances, amusement parks, and nickelodeon movie theatres. Although young working class women liked to go out, this often proved difficult, as their wages were very low. Young women dealt with this issue in numerous ways. Some refrained from going out or limited going out to special occasions, while others depended on their male counterparts to finance their pleasures. The latter solution is referred to as “treating”. Historian Kathy Peiss has popularized this term in many of her scholarly works such as Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (1986) and “Charity Girls and City Pleasures” (2004). The act of treating was an exchange between a man and a woman. A man would agree to pay for a woman’s outing in exchange for her company. Treating ranged from the more innocent to the more scandalous. Treating was seen as harmless when it was conducted between a “steady” couple and more risqué when it was performed on a casual basis. The women who engaged with this more risqué form of treating often reciprocated by performing sexual favors. These favors could be dancing, hugging, and kissing to full on sexual intercourse. The women who engaged with the more intense sexual acts were referred to as “charity girls”. These women did not see themselves as prostitutes but often walked a fine line between being treated and being paid for their sexual services.

Usage examples of "treating".

Again, if the ore is washed with water before treating with cyanide on the large scale, then the assay should be made of the acidity of the ore after a similar washing.

Treating Raven like the dangerous predator he was, Adeem very carefully held the sword out to him.

For this reason one who is in the love of ruling from the love of self thinks nothing of defrauding his neighbor, committing adultery with his wife, slandering him, breathing vengeance on him even to the death, treating him cruelly, and other such deeds.

While you were treating them it would have spread to neighbouring farms, then all over the country.

At one time I would think of devoting all my intelligence and all my money to kindling an amorous passion in her heart, and then to revenge myself by treating her with contempt.

A test to reveal overproduction of a protein found in plaque might expose early signs of atherosclerosis, when better options exist for treating it.

But whatever the explanation, he had strictly censored himself from that night on, treating her in an avuncular manner that had amazed himself, and would certainly have flabbergasted any of his cronies or former mistresses had they seen him.

Harding could have manufactured this substance by treating the carbonate of potash, which would be easily extracted from the cinders of the vegetables, by azotic acid.

Cyrus Harding could have manufactured this substance by treating the carbonate of potash, which would be easily extracted from the cinders of the vegetables, by azotic acid.

Carl Simonton, a radiation therapist with Oncology Associates, Fort Worth, Texas, uses a combination of meditation, visualization and biofeedback techniques in treating cancer patients.

Were you treating Ann for problems related to sexual abuse or for bipolar disorder?

You could be a bondslave from Valdemar, and we would be treating you the same as we are now.

Across the Atlantic an officinal tincture is made from the Tomato for curative purposes by treating the apples, and the bruised fresh plant with alcohol, and letting this stand for eight days before it is filtered and strained.

Zelie Cadelle, redder than a peony, was trying to induce him to let her pass, treating him at the same time to some of the choicest epithets of her well-stocked repertory.

I got on well with Chad, perhaps because he at once set an informal pattern by treating me as if I were a younger sister.