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tractates
n. (plural of tractate English)
Usage examples of "tractates".
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.