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tractate
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synonyms: treatise, monograph ???
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Definition:A treatise; a tract; an essay.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Their necks, thick and greedily fleshy at the roots, tapered up to the cruel inanity of their brainless heads, their flat eyes and piercing beaks. The fabulists were right, he reflected, when they took beasts to illustrate their tractates of human morality.
Aldous Huxley. Crome Yellow (1921)
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He spoke very handsomely of my late tractate on the Egyptian Mysteries,—using, in fact, terms which it would not become me to repeat."
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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