• Treatise

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /ˈtriːtɪs/, /ˈtriːtɪz/

    Full definition of treatise

    Noun

    treatise

    (plural treatises)
    1. A formal, usually lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject.
      • 1910, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price Chapter 1, “… We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps ? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic ?...”
      • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. Stephanus pagination.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.
      • 2013, Sarah Glaz, Ode to Prime Numbers, Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.

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