Definitions for tractates

tractates trac·tate

Spelling: [trak-teyt]
IPA: /ˈtræk teɪt/

Tractates is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 306 anagrams from letters in tractates (aacersttt).

Definitions for tractates

noun

  1. a treatise; essay.

Origin of tractates

1425-75; late Middle English Medieval Latin tractātus, Latin: handling, treatment, equivalent to tractā(re) to handle, treat (frequentative of trahere to draw) + -tus suffix of v. action

Examples for tractates

Eventually light came to me through reading a passage in a tractate on the Creed by Rufinus.

His tractate on Education contains peculiar views of a curriculum of study, but is charmingly written.

Then there is a commentary on the "Cantica of Avicenna," and a tractate on the "Theriac."

The imperfections include the first leaf, and two leaves in the second chapitre of the fourth tractate, the end is all right.

The tractate, De Erroribus Philosophorum, is attributed to him.

The tractate is described as a very elaborate and learned compilation from the Fathers upon the sanctity of the Sabbath.

Hippocrates, in the tractate on "Ancient Medicine," has a splendid paragraph on the attitude of mind towards the men of the past.

In his tractate on Education there is not a word on the education of girls, and yet he wanted an intellectual female companion.

He realized in the cultivation of himself his definition of education, given in his tractate 'Of Education.

The Mishnic tractate Sabbath stands at the head of twelve tractates on festivals.

Word Value for tractates
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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