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tractate
[ trak-teyt ]
noun
- a treatise; essay.
tractate
/ ˈٰæٱɪ /
noun
- a short tract; treatise
- Judaism one of the volumes of the Talmud
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of tractate1
1425–75; late Middle English < Medieval Latin ٰٳܲ, Latin: handling, treatment, equivalent to ٰ ( re ) to handle, treat (frequentative of trahere to draw) + -tus suffix of v. action
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of tractate1
C15: from Latin ٰtus , from ٰre to handle; see tractable
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Then they went on to another tractate, fought over another passage, and this time Reb Saunders agreed, his face glowing, that his son was correct.
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AT 3AM, a thousand young men are all poring over the same page in the Babylonian Talmud tractate of Kiddushin, which deals with definitions of matrimony in ancient rabbinical law.
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It is further divided into 63 parts, or tractates, which are broken down into 517 chapters.
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Ten months later Seneca wrote his tractate on Clemency.
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If Mr. Murray does not sell ten or twenty thousand copies of this amusing tractate, we shall be greatly deceived.
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