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A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.

A scientific account or discussion of rivers; a treatise on rivers; potamography.

bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound investigation or treatise; a profound scholar; profound wisdom.

A preliminary remark or observation; an introductory discourse prefixed to a book or treatise. D. Stokes (1659). Sir W. Scott.

the powers and functions of the human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul. Psychology, the science conversant about the phenomena of the mind, or conscious subject, or self. Sir W. Hamilton.

A discourse or treatise on fevers; the doctrine of fevers. Hooper.

f physical science which treats of the properties, phenomena, or effects of heat; also, a treatise on heat.

; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish. They permit him to leave their poetical taste ungratified, provided that he gratifies their rhetorical sense. M. Arnold. -- Rhe*tor"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Rhe*tor"ic*al*ness, n.

A treatise for authoritative instruction among the Hindoos; a book of institutes; especially, a treatise explaining the Vedas. [Written also sastra.]

A treatise on the regulation of the diet; dietetics. [Written also sitiology.]

That part of anatomy which treats of the skeleton; also, a treatise on the skeleton.

A treatise on the human body; anatomy. Dunglison.

with unimpaired; hence, the theory of vibrations in elastic media such cause sound; as, a treatise on sound.

Thick; crowded; compact; dense. [Obs.] This spiss and . . . copious, yet concise, treatise. Brerewood.

That part of anatomy which treats of the viscera; also, a treatise on the viscera.

The doctrine of, or a treatise upon, systems. Dunglison.

A ceremonial treatise related to Puranic and magic literature; esp., one of the sacred works of the worshipers of Sakti. -- Tan"tric (-trik), a.

The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms.

or pertaining to theology, or the science of God and of divine things; as, a theological treatise. -- The`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

The doctrine of nutrition; a treatise on nutrition.