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tractate
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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. ...
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A tractate (, Sephardic:, Ashkenazic:) is an organizational element of Talmudic literature (e.g. Mishnah , Tosefta , Beraita , Gemara ). The "major" tractates, which are those of the Mishnah itself, are organized into six groups, called sedarim , while ...
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n. a treatise
Usage examples of tractate.
Sixth Tractate -- That the Principle Transcending Being has No Intellectual Act.
So he got off me, and I looked at them with great pleasure because I was about to demonstrate that I was a folks-mensh of the first water, and I said, Under a ruling in Tractate Berakhot, nine Jews and the holy ark of the law containing the Torah may, together, hey nu, nu, do you get what I'm saying, may together be considered for congregational worship!
Henry was requested by Don Antoni de’ Pizamanni, a patrician of Venice, who was also a Doctor of Sacred Theology, to write a tractate impugning this said book of Antonio degli Roselli.
The fabulists were right, he reflected, when they took beasts to illustrate their tractates of human morality.
They are for the most part extant in records of pleas, proceedings, and judgments, in books of reports and judicial decisions, in tractates of learned men's arguments and opinions, preserved from ancient times and still extant in writing.