TREATISE in a Sentence

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And if any one desire to have this view confirmed by numberless other proofs, let him look into Xenophon's treatise De Tirannide.

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 Meanings and Examples of TREATISE
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treatise
 n.  systematic, usually extensive written discourse on a subject
Classic Sentence:
1  Although I intend to leave the description of this empire to a particular treatise, yet, in the mean time, I am content to gratify the curious reader with some general ideas.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI.
2  I saw another at work to calcine ice into gunpowder; who likewise showed me a treatise he had written concerning the malleability of fire, which he intended to publish.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
3  The professor made me great acknowledgments for communicating these observations, and promised to make honourable mention of me in his treatise.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VI.
4  At the age of twenty-one he wrote a treatise upon the Binomial Theorem, which has had a European vogue.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
5  Holmes and I sat together in silence all the evening, he engaged with a powerful lens deciphering the remains of the original inscription upon a palimpsest, I deep in a recent treatise upon surgery.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
6  No doubt, Doctor; and yet the conversation may prove more important than the treatise.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
7  It was as a part of all this commonplaceness that she regarded the treatise on village-improvement.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  While composing a little treatise on Eternity, I had the curiosity to place a mirror before me; and ere long saw reflected there, a curious involved worming and undulation in the atmosphere over my head.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
9  At other times he would return home to write a treatise, and requested his friends not to disturb him.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS
10  And if any one desire to have this view confirmed by numberless other proofs, let him look into Xenophon's treatise De Tirannide.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II.
11  Mr. Pocket was out lecturing; for, he was a most delightful lecturer on domestic economy, and his treatises on the management of children and servants were considered the very best text-books on those themes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIII
Example Sentence:
1  He is preparing a treatise on the Elizabethan playwrights for his graduate degree.
2  This combined novel and treatise traces the history of an imaginary French fortress from the 4th Century B.C. through the Napoleonic Wars.
3  What broke the medieval guilds was printing; some one could publish a treatise on how to tan leather.