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Treated

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.

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treated

vb. (en-past of: treat)

WordNet
treated
  1. adj. subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent; "the sludge of treated sewage can be used as fertilizer"; "treated timbers resist rot"; "treated fabrics resist wrinkling" [ant: untreated]

  2. (of a specimen for study under a microscope) treated with a reagent or dye that colors only certain structures

  3. given medical care or treatment; "a treated cold is usually gone in 14 days; if left untreated it lasts two weeks" [ant: untreated]

  4. made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass" [syn: tempered, hardened, toughened] [ant: untempered]

Usage examples of "treated".

These accusations never ceased although Matzerath, in defiance of all political considerations and almost against his will, treated her with a respect bordering on reverence and during the war years supplied her with sugar and synthetic honey, coffee and kerosene.

Many townspeople treated the hippies in a similar fashion, looking upon them as a sort of manna from heaven, hiring them--for example--to make adobes, because the freaks learned fast and were willing--again out of middle-class guilt, and also because they were independently wealthy anyway--to labor eight or ten hours a day at what amounted to slave wages.

I felt that it would distort the story to refer to the children in it as though they were adults, though most were treated as adults by the legal system.

He had treated her with unfailing courtesy since their unhappy conversation about Anna and even if Alethea had wanted to bring the matter up it would have been difficult.

The Amalekites met the requisition to surrender the fugitives, of whom they knew nothing, with words of mockery, which so enraged the officer that he determined to search the oasis throughout by force, and when he found his emissaries treated with scorn he advanced with the larger part of his troops on to the free territory of the Amalekites.

I have begged your forgiveness for the way in which I treated you, Annis, not until you say that I am forgiven.

The wound was at once treated with antiseptics, after the window had been barricaded, and Ned declared that he was ready to renew the fight.

In the house of Master Lokos, she had her first taste of true, familial affection, for the master and his plump, jolly wife customarily treated apprentices like the sons and daughters they had never had.

Master Lokos had never fretted that craft masters of other trades laughed at him, he had treated his apprentices like his own sons and daughters, rather than doing for them only that which the law commanded.

I have heard that from that time English archers have been better treated in the auberge of Cardillac.

The archons of the various city-states had no desire to see a war fleet of blood-thirsty barbarians sailing their way on the excuse of rescuing some unjustly treated kinsman.

The novel may deal wholly with an aristocracy, or wholly with another class, but it must idealize the nature it touches into art. The fault of the bourgeoisie novels, of which Heine complains, is not that they treated of one class only, and excluded a higher social range, but that they treated it without art and without ideality.

Surprised at my knowledge, she rose from her chair to get a valuable gold watch and presented to my master, who, not knowing how to express his deep gratitude, treated us to the most comic scene.

I resolved to write to the French officer who had treated me so well at the guardhouse.

Delighted at hearing that oracles were not yet defunct, and satisfied that they will endure as long as there are in this world simpleminded men and deceitful, cunning priests, I follow the good man, who took me to his tartan and treated me to an excellent breakfast.