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tretis

tretis is the obsolete form of treatise.

Meaning of treatise

Noun

treatise (plural treatises)

  1. A formal, usually lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject.
    • [M]y Fell of haire / VVould at a diſmall Treatiſe rovvze, and ſtirre / As life vvere in't.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Forms of tretis

pluraltretises

Questions about tretis

What is tretis the obsolete form of?
Tretis is the obsolete form of treatise.

Words near tretis in the dictionary

  1. tretinoin
  2. tretinoin tocoferil
  3. tretinoins
  4. Tretire
  5. Tretire with Michaelchurch
  6. tretis
  7. tretises
  8. Treto
  9. tretoquinol
  10. Tretos
  11. trets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tretis (page history and authors); treatise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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