Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tractate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tractate \Tract"ate\, n. [L. tractatus a touching, handling,
treatise. See Tractable, and {Tract} a treatise, {Treaty}.]
A treatise; a tract; an essay.
Agreeing in substance with Augustin's, from whose
fourteenth Tractate on St. John the words are
translated. --Hare.
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