Recent Examples on the WebHis doctoral thesis, which is related to economic discrimination, and his treatises on family, human capital, rational addictions, the economic approach to human behavior, and social economics are wonderful.—Vera Bergengruen/buenos Aires, TIME, 23 May 2024 For years, the volume — a 19th-century French treatise on the human soul — was brought out for show and tell, and sometimes, according to library lore, used to haze new employees.—Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for treatise
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Etymology
Middle English tretis, from Anglo-French tretiz, alteration of tretez, traitet, from Medieval Latin tractatus, from Latin tractare to treat, handle
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