Tractate
Pronunciation : Tract"ate
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [L. tractatus a touching, handling, treatise. See Tractable, and Tract a treatise, Treaty.]
Definition : Defn: A treatise; a tract; an essay. Agreeing in substance with Augustin's, from whose fourteenth Tractate on St. John the words are translated. Hare.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913