'Tractate' definitions:

Definition of 'Tractate'

From: GCIDE
  • Tractate \Tract"ate\, n. [L. tractatus a touching, handling, treatise. See Tractable, and Tract a treatise, Treaty.] A treatise; a tract; an essay. [1913 Webster]
  • Agreeing in substance with Augustin's, from whose fourteenth Tractate on St. John the words are translated. --Hare. [1913 Webster]

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