Word Meanings - TREATISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract. Chaucer. He published a treatise in which he maintained that a marriage between a member of the Church of England and a dissenter was

Additional info about word: TREATISE

1. A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract. Chaucer. He published a treatise in which he maintained that a marriage between a member of the Church of England and a dissenter was a nullity. Macaulay. Note: A treatise implies more form and method than an essay, but may fall short of the fullness and completeness of a systematic exposition. 2. Story; discourse. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TREATISE)

• Disquisition
• Essay
• treatise
• discussion
• dissertation

Related words: (words related to TREATISE)

• DISQUISITION
  A formal or systematic inquiry into, or discussion of, any subject; a full examination or investigation of a matter, with the arguments and facts bearing upon it; elaborate essay; dissertation. For accurate research or grave disquisition he was
• DISQUISITIONARY
  Pertaining to disquisition; disquisitional.
• DISSERTATIONAL
  Relating to dissertations; resembling a dissertation.
• ESSAYER
  One who essays. Addison.
• ESSAY
  A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce. 3. An assay. See Assay, n.
• DISQUISITIONAL
  Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.
• ESSAYIST
  A writer of an essay, or of essays. B. Jonson.
• DISCUSSIONAL
  Pertaining to discussion.
• TREATISER
  One who writes a treatise.
• DISSERTATION
  A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written; a disquisition; an essay; a discussion; as, Dissertations on the Prophecies.
• TREATISE
  1. A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract. Chaucer. He published a treatise in which he maintained that a marriage between a member of the Church of England and a dissenter was
• DISSERTATIONIST
  A writer of dissertations.
• DISCUSSION
  1. The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like. 2. The act of discussing or exchanging reasons; examination by argument; debate; disputation; agitation. The liberty of discussion is the great safeguard