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To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent. [Obs.] " A treatable disposition, a strong memory." R. Parr. A kind of treatable dissolution. Hooker. The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us. Sir W. Temple.

In a treatable manner. [Obs.]

One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.

ect, 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.

One who writes a treatise. [Obs.]

The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.

Treatment. [Obs.] Fabyan.

The act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation. "By sly and wise treaty." Chaucer. He cast by treaty and by trains Her to persuade. Spenser.

To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use. [Obs.] Fairly let her be entreated. Shak. I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well. Jer. xv. 11.

That may be entreated.

Entreaty. [Obs.] Fairfax.

One who entreats; one who asks earnestly; a beseecher.

Full of entreaty. [R.] See Intreatful.

In an entreating manner.

Used in entreaty; pleading. [R.] "Entreative phrase." A. Brewer.

Entreaty; invitation. [Obs.] Shak.

Treatment; reception; entertainment. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

s set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer. Cowell. Estreat of a recognizance, the extracting or taking out a forfeited recognizance from among the other records of the court, for the purpose of a prosecution in another court, or it may be in the same court. Burrill.…

Extraction. [Obs.] Spenser.