treatise
/ˈtɹiːtɪs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.38 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[M]y Fell of haire / VVould at a diſmall Treatiſe rovvze, and ſtirre / As life vvere in't."
- ""As you cannot make a speech, you must," said Henrietta, "put it into a treatise.""
- "“[…] 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 ?[…]”"
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English tretys, from Anglo-Norman tretiz and Old French traitis (“treatise, account”), from traitier (“to deal with, treat”).