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Treatise
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract. Chaucer. He published a treatise in which he maintained that a marriage between a member of the Church of England and a dissenter was a nullity. Macaulay.
2. Story; discourse. [R.] Shak.