Tractate

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tractate \Tract"ate\, n. [L. tractatus a touching, handling,
     treatise. See Tractable, and {Tract} a treatise, {Treaty}.]
     A treatise; a tract; an essay.
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           Agreeing in substance with Augustin's, from whose


           fourteenth Tractate on St. John the words are
           translated.                              --Hare.
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