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treatise Definition

trea·tise (trēt′is)

noun

  1. a formal, systematic article or book on some subject, esp. a discussion of facts, evidence, or principles and the conclusions based on these
  2. Obsolete a narrative; tale

Etymology: ME tretis < Anglo-Fr tretiz < OFr *treiteiz < traiter: see treat

treatise Synonyms

treatise

n.

tract, paper, monograph; see exposition 2.

treatise Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • taxis: Treatise of Taxes, 33; Writings, i, 51, 52.

Converse of object

  • compose: The leisure thus afforded he employed in composing various treatises.
  • entitle: Catcott, Alexander, 1768, A Supplement to a book, entitled a treatise on the deluge.
  • write: He later wrote a treatise on the Art of Acting.
  • publish: Cantor published a six part treatise on set theory from the years 1879 to 1884.
  • contain: An Instructions leaflet contains a treatise on how to give readings.

Adjective modifier

  • theological: What we have here is not some general theological treatise.
  • doctrinal: The contrast is presented in the most emphatic way in the great doctrinal treatise of the New Testament.
  • philosophical: Consider, now, the activity of reading, say, a philosophical treatise.
  • celebrated: Hunter also possessed two illustrated copies of the celebrated surgical treatise of the 14th century Royal physician, John Arderne.
  • scholarly: It was not my purpose to write a scholarly treatise about the phenomenon of the hefted flocks.
  • Latin: In 1545 he published Ars Magna the first Latin treatise on algebra.

Preposition: on

  • painting: In his treatise on painting, da Vinci warns ' Let no one who is not a mathematician read my work ' .
  • subject: Their books are of special value since there is no Greek treatise on the subject.
  • theory: He might have produced either a valuable treatise on the theory of money, or a telling pamphlet on the Restriction controversy.
  • art: He later wrote a treatise on the Art of Acting.
  • nature: This is a treatise on the nature of love, told through the analogy of dancing.
  • science: This was a philosophical treatise on universal science that included a 100-page appendix on geometry, containing his fundamental contributions to analytic geometry.

Noun used with modifier

  • prose: Important also seems to be the development of the Hippocratics ' medium, the written prose treatise.
  • volume: Alwyn had contributed to the original two volume Treatise in the 1960s and he managed the revision with huge enthusiasm.
treatise Quotes

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.

—Humboldt, Alexander, Baron von