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The quality or state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.

Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner. I shall find them tractable enough. Shak.

One of the writers of the Oxford tracts, called "Tracts for the Times," issued during the period 1833-1841, in which series of papers the sacramental system and authority of the Church, and the value of tradition, were brought into prominence. Also, a member of the High Church party, holding generally the principles of…

The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times."

A treatise; a tract; an essay. Agreeing in substance with Augustin's, from whose fourteenth Tractate on St. John the words are translated. Hare.

Treatment or handling of a subject; discussion. [Obs.] A full tractation of the points controverted. Bp. Hall.

One who writes tracts; specif., a Tractarian. [R.] C. Kingsley.

Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile. Bacon.

The quality of being tractile; ductility. Derham.

The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle.

A locomotive driving wheel which acts by friction adhesion to a smooth track.

Of or relating to traction.

A Tractarian.

Treating of; handling. [R.]

Serving to draw; pulling; attracting; as, tractive power.

That which draws, or is used for drawing.

an aëroplane instead of behind them, so that it exerts a pull instead of a push. Hence, Tractor monoplane, Tractor biplane, etc.

See Perkinism.

A tractrix.

A curve such that the part of the tangent between the point of tangency and a given straight line is constant; -- so called because it was conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.