Definition of Tractates

1. Noun. (plural of tractate) ¹

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Definition of Tractates

1. tractate [n] - See also: tractate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tractates

tract
tract home
tract homes
tract house
tract housing
tract of Goll
tract of Munzer and Wiener
tract of Schutz
tractabilities
tractability
tractable
tractableness
tractablenesses
tractably
tractate
tractates (current term)
tracted
tractellum
tractile
tractility
tracting
traction
traction alopecia
traction atrophy
traction diverticulum
traction engine
traction engines
traction epiphysis
tractional
tractionally

Literary usage of Tractates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1912)
"This bishop cited frequently the tractates of Zeno, and brought a ... Older than this manuscript, however, is the chief codex of the tractates (Codex ..."

2. The Origin & Development of the Christian Church in Gaul During the First by Thomas Scott Holmes (1911)
"We must now consider the other seven tractates, excluding his work on the Canons of St. Paul's Epistles, and see whether in them or in any of them we can ..."

3. The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim (1883)
"The Babylon Talmud, which in its present form extends over thirty-six out of the sixty-three tractates of the Mishnah, is about ten or eleven times the size ..."

4. A History of the Papacy During the Period of the Reformation by Mandell Creighton (1882)
"tractates about the Reformation of the Church. A mass of literature was called forth by the reforming movement of the fifteenth century, especially in the ..."

5. A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome by Mandell Creighton (1909)
"tractates about the Reformation of the Church. A mass of literature was called forth by the reforming movement of the fifteenth century, especially in the ..."

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