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Treatise means a formal, usually lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject. Example: “Burton's famous treatise, "The Anatomy of Melancholy"”

Examples of treatise by meaning

nounA formal, usually lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject.

  • And if someone wants to know how to make objections to actual craftsmen themselves on the subject of art in general or any particular art, there are published treatises available, as you know.2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 232d
  • Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers.2013 July–August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4

More sentences with treatise

  • Burton's famous treatise, "The Anatomy of Melancholy"From the entry anatomy
  • There exist treatises on membranes or hymenologies; descriptions of membranes or hymenographies.2017, Jacques Derrida, Acts of Literature, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry hymenology
  • XXXIX, 3.1), containing a treatise of palmomancy, with no clear Christian influence.2016, Alan Mugridge, Copying Early Christian Texts: A study of scribal practice, Mohr Siebeck, →ISBN, page 412. From the entry palmomancy
  • A depthy treatise on a topic which cannot be too small.2015, Joe Biel, Elly Blue, Manspressions: Decoding Men's Behavior, page 19. From the entry depthy
  • Prying open the crate, you discover a carefully wrapped, handwritten copy of one of Matriarch Dilinaga's treatises.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nonuel. From the entry pen
  • Most babas had little contact with written culture and are not therefore named in books and treatises.2006, Suraiya Faroqhi, Subjects Of The Sultan: Culture And Daily Life In The Ottoman Empire. From the entry baba
  • Instead of a linguistic treatise, I saw she'd written her self.2003, Susan Ouriou, Damselfish, page 25. From the entry sisterdom
  • Clavius's treatise is, first of all, reckoned as one of the textbooks of cossist algebra.1989, Chikara Sasaki, Descartes's Mathematical Thought, page 90. From the entry cossist
  • The modern scientist would not think of intitulating a treatise on relativity “Commentary on Einstein.”1947, George Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science, volumes III (Science and Learning in the Fourteenth Century), Baltimore, Md.…. From the entry intitulate
  • We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps?1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC. From the entry simple
  • “We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps?1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC. From the entry great
  • Naomi Wolf ’s The Beauty Myth was the first feminist treatise on women’s looks I didn’t find alienatingly hirsute.2015 September 13, Kathryn Flett, “Uncomfortably numb: 'I've had my first Botox injection and I want more'”, in The Observer. From the entry alienatingly
  • It contains Pseudo-Melampous's treatise on palmomancy, a form of divination that takes its clues from involuntary body movements.2014, AnneMarie Luijendijk, Forbidden Oracles?: The Gospel of the Lots of Mary, Mohr Siebeck, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry palmomancy
  • Nevertheless Neopythagorean treatises are extant that were written in Alexandria at the end of the first century B.C.2013, Helene Foley, Reflections of Women in Antiquity, page 311. From the entry Neopythagorean
  • Some of these treatises were written by women adopting as pennames the names of earlier female disciples and relatives of Pythagoras.2013, Helene Foley, Reflections of Women in Antiquity, page 311. From the entry Neopythagorean
  • The second work is more promising, but something of an odd fish: the anonymous German treatise Schwester Katrei.2010, Stephen Mossman, Marquard von Lindau and the Challenges of Religious Life. From the entry odd fish
  • Other types of publication include readers, reprints of traditional Mon texts, and chronicular texts, apart from religious treatises.1990, Christian Bauer, “Language and Ethnicity: The Mon in Burma and Thailand”, in Ethnic Groups Across National Boundaries in Mainland…. From the entry chronicular
  • But let's suppose your fan activities are confined to writing scholarly treatises on the Sources Used by H.P.1966 October, Lin Carter, “Handy Phrase-Book in Fannish”, in If, volume 16, number 10 (#107 overall), page 66. From the entry sercon
  • In a treatise that still causes ripples in English society, Mitford defined various terms as either U (upper class) or non-U.1956, Nancy Mitford, Noblesse Oblige: an Inquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy. From the entry u
  • It is a plain orderly treatise on the ways and habits, the varieties, and the anatomical structure of an entire group.”1925, William A. Locy, The Growth of Biology, Henry Holt and Company, page 28. From the entry fragmentary
  • Mercati’s full consent, to publish the treatise, although no longer an anecdoton, in the pages of the Journal.1904: Journal of Theological Studies, volume 5 (1903–1904), page 218 ^〃 (Macmillan). From the entry anecdoton
  • Burridge's paper investigates various means of incorporating body part nouns into clauses in 14th and 15th century Middle Dutch medical treatises (Brabantish and Hollandish dialects).2011, Hilary Chappel, William McGregor, “Prolegomena to a theory of inalienability”, in The Grammar of Inalienability, page 21. From the entry Hollandish
  • Oransay left behind his private archives, Turk Kiig Belgeligi, which is considered the largest collection of theoretical treatises, manuscripts, musicographical and biographical works in Turkey.1988, Turkish Music Quarterly, volume 1, page 25. From the entry musicographical
  • Demetreius of Phalerum, a peripatetic philosopher of the fourth century B.C., wrote an amatory treatise entitled Eroticus - no longer, however, extant.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 75. From the entry peripatetic
  • This elementary treatise on biologicals was designed primarily for the instruction of Lilly salesmen to enable them to handle the biological line intelligently.1917, A.B.C. Course on Biologicals, Indianapolis: Eli Lilly and Company, page 5. From the entry biological
  • Then appeared, toward the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century, a number of epoch-making and classical juridicomoral treatises on law, right, and justice.2003, Catholic University of America, New Catholic Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 145. From the entry juridicomoral
  • Galen himself writes promiscuously of them both by reason of their affinity; but most of our neoterics do handle them apart, whom I will follow in this treatise., Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.140. From the entry neoteric
  • Croce's early treatise . . . was resolutely grounded in the identification of intuition and expression, of genius and taste, and in the amorality and arationality of all art.1946, G. A. Borgese, “Literary Criticism in Italy during the Romantic Period,”, in Italica, volume 23, number 2, page 70. From the entry arationality
  • We have not sought to make a treatise, but only to set up a waywiser or signpost to show the road the law is taking .1931, Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review, page 461. From the entry waywiser
  • This neo-pantheism is wide-spread enough to induce one of our leading publishing houses to reprint Seeley's "Natural Religion," a treatise once famous but lately out of print.1917, Durant Drake, “The God of the Future is in the Making”, in Current Opinion, page 246. From the entry neo-pantheism

Meaning of treatise

  1. noun A formal, usually lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject.

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Questions about treatise in a sentence

How do you use treatise in a sentence?
Treatise is used as a noun. For example: “Burton's famous treatise, "The Anatomy of Melancholy"”
What is a short sentence with treatise?
“Burton's famous treatise, "The Anatomy of Melancholy"”
What does treatise mean?
Treatise means a formal, usually lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject.

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