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  1. noun An expanse of land or water.
  2. noun A specified or limited area of land: developing a 30-acre tract.
  3. noun Anatomy A system of organs and tissues that together perform a specialized function: the alimentary tract.
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  • Upon the second page of the cover of my tract was a notice of the above-named gift books; and my aim was to hastily call the attention of clergymen to them, and to give them some idea of the claims of Swedenborg's writings to their attention, and to encourage them to send for and to read the books thus providentially within their reach. —  Personal Experience of a Physician
  • A fine example of the morality of scruples inculcated by the tract is the passage on the duty of religious observance. —  The Life and Romances of Mrs Eliza Haywood
  • The rest of the tract is a redemption of this promise. —  The Life of John Milton
  • The author of that other tract was our other well-known friend Mr. JOHN GOODWIN, Vicar of St. St.phen's, Coleman St.eet, whom the Presbyterians had put in their black books as an Arminian, Socinian, and what not (Vol. II. —  The Life of John Milton
  • This tract was already printed in May. —  Life of Martin Luther
 

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  1. Middle English, period of time, from Latin tractus, course, space, period of time, from past participle of trahere, to draw.
  2. Middle English tracte, treatise, probably short for Latin tractātus, from past participle of tractāre, to discuss, frequentative of trahere, to draw.
  3. Middle English tracte, from Medieval Latin tractus, from Latin, a drawing out (from its being an uninterrupted solo); see tract1.

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  1. from Latin tractus, past participle of trahere, draw, carry off, draw out, protract, delay, retard; prob. not connected with English draw, drag. Hence ult. (from Latin trahere) English tract, n., with its doublets trait, trace, etc., tract, tract, etc., attract, contract, detract, etc., extray, portray, treat, treatise, treaty, tractate, tractable, etc., attrahent, contrahent, subtrahend, etc., trace, track, etc. The verb tract, with the noun, has been more or less confused in some senses with track and track.
  2. Early modern English tracte; from Latin tractus, a drawing, train, extent, a district, extent of time, in genitive extension, length, Middle Latin a treating, handling, doing, business, commerce, a song, etc., in a great variety of uses; from trahere, past participle tractus, draw: see tract, v. From the same Latin noun are also ult. English trait and trace.
  3. from Latin tractare, handle, treat, freq. of trahere, draw: see treat, and cf. tract.
  4. from Middle Latin tractus, a treating, handling, etc., an anthem, particular uses of Latin tractus, a drawing: see tract, and cf. tractate.
  5. An erroneous form of track, simulating tract.
 

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