tractate

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tractate

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From Middle English tractate, from Latin tractātus, past participle of tractō (“discuss”), the iterative or frequentative of trahō. Doublet of treaty.

noun tractates

A treatise. an abstruse tractate on black magic

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@misc{tractate_2026,
  title = {tractate},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tractate},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}