A tract; a written composition on a particular subject, in which the principles of it are discussed or explained. A treatise is of an indefinite length; but it implies more form and method than an essay, and less fullness or copiousness than a system.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract.
2. Story; discourse.
One who writes a treatise. [Not used.]
One who writes a treatise.
Book Roget’s Thesaurus §593
N. booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation) 595, writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism, pen, scribbler, the scribbling race, literary hack, grub-street writer, writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger, publicist, reporter, penny a liner, editor, subeditor, playwright, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning
Phr. "among the giant fossils of my past", craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, "for authors nobler palms remain", "i lived to write and wrote to live", "look in thy heart and write", "there is no past so long as books shall live", "the public mind is the creation of the master-writers", "volumes that i prize above my dukedom"
Dissertation Roget’s Thesaurus §595
N. dissertation, treatise, essay, thesis, theme, monograph, tract, tractate, tractation, discourse, memoir, disquisition, lecture, sermon, homily, pandect, excursus, commentary, review, critique, criticism, article, leader, leading article, editorial, running commentary, investigation, study, discussion, exposition, commentator, critic, essayist, pamphleteer
V. expound upon a subject, dissert upon a subject, descant upon a subject, write upon a subject, touch upon a subject, treat a subject, treat a subject thoroughly, treat of a subject, take up a subject, ventilate a subject, discuss a subject, deal with a subject, go into a subject, go into a subject at length, canvass a subject, handle a subject, do justice to a subject, hold forth, discourse, delve into
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1 KJV and 2 BSB verses contain “Treatise”
The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
In my first book, O Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach,