tractate

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The object of his tractate was to expose and counteract the purposes and proceedings of the Resolutioners.

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  1. noun A treatise; an essay.

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  • In its article "Gentile", under the subheading "Rabbinical Modification of Laws", The Jewish Encyclopedia states (note that "B. M." signifies the tractate "Baba Mezia" in the Talmud and "B. K." is tractate "Baba Kamma" of the Talmud): —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • Schoolhouse Rock tractate, The United States Constitution views the intrinsic and complicated compromise between the state and federal governments with a Hamiltonian bent, overwhelmingly favoring one side of the states 'rights argument, while focusing on its stated mission that "to know the legacy of political exclusion that once existed in the Constitution is to have a greater insight on the most unflaterring chapters of the nation's history."
  • The Jewish Talmud tractate Sanhedrin folio 20b instructs the Jews to genocide the native inhabitants of Palestine, who are there called "Amalekites". —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • Each seder deals with a certain area (agriculture, marriage, the Temple); each seder is comprised of masechtos (plural of masechah, meaning "tractate"), and each masechah usually deals with a specific issue (marriage, slaves, property). —  Muslihoon
  • The object of his tractate was to expose and counteract the purposes and proceedings of the Resolutioners. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
 

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  1. Latin tractātus; see tract2.

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  1. Formerly also tractat; =D. traktaat =G. tractat =Swedish Danish traktat, from Latin tractatus, a treatise, ecclesiastical a homily, a handling, treatment, from tractare, handle, treat: see tract, treat, and cf. tract.
 

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