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ˈtræk teɪttrac·tate

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  1. tractatenoun

    a treatise

  2. Etymology: From tractatus, past participle of tracto, the iterative or frequentative of traho.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Tractatenoun

    A treatise; a tract; a small book.

    Etymology: tractatus, Latin.

    Though philosophical tractates make enumeration of authors, yet are their reasons usually introduced. Brown.

    We need no other evidence than Glanville’s tractate. Matthew Hale.

Wikipedia

  1. Tractate

    A tractate is a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject; the word derives from the Latin tractatus, meaning treatise.One example of its use is in citing a section of the Talmud, when the term masekhet (מסכת‎) is used in conjunction with the name of the subject, for example, Masekhet Berakhoth, which is relevant to agriculture and blessings.Two further examples are the 1670 and '76 Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Baruch Spinoza, and the 1921 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tractatenoun

    a treatise; a tract; an essay

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tractate in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tractate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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