Search the Dictionary

A discourse or treatise upon the tides; that part of science which treats of tides. J. S. Mill.

A treatise on forms of argument; a system or scheme of forms or commonplaces of argument or oratory; as, the Topics of Aristotle. These topics, or loci, were no other than general ideas applicable to a great many different subjects, which the orator was directed to consult. Blair. In this question by [reason] I do not…

One versed in toxicology; the writer of a treatise on poisons.

which treats of poisons, their effects, antidotes, and recignition; also, a discourse or treatise on the science.

A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion. The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared. Swift. Tracts for the Times. See Tractarian.

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

A treatise; a tract. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A treatise; also, a treaty. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A treatise in this science. Analytical trigonometry, that branch of trigonometry which treats of the relations and properties of the trigonometrical functions. -- Plane trigonometry, and Spherical trigonometry, those branches of trigonometry in which its principles are applied to plane triangles and spherical triangle…

A discourse or treatise on types.

Of or pertaining to uranography; as, an uranographic treatise.

A discourse or treatise on the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the study of the heavens; uranography.

e. This bold assertion has been fully vanquished in a late reply to the Bishop of Meaux's treatise. Atterbury. For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still. Goldsmith.

A discourse or treatise on worms; that part of zoölogy which treats of worms; helminthology. [R.]

A treatise on this science.

A treatise on the fermentation of liquors, or the doctrine of fermentation. [Written also zumology.]