TREATISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does treatise mean? 

• TREATISE (noun)
  The noun TREATISE has 1 sense:

1. a formal exposition

  Familiarity information: TREATISE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREATISE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A formal exposition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("treatise" is a kind of...):

piece of writing; writing; written material (the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "treatise"):

dissertation; thesis (a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree)

pamphlet; tract (a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet)

monograph (a detailed and documented treatise on a particular subject)

 Context examples 

No doubt, Doctor; and yet the conversation may prove more important than the treatise.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The professor made me great acknowledgments for communicating these observations, and promised to make honourable mention of me in his treatise.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises on science, the others being volumes of poetry.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What evenings, when the candles came, and I was expected to employ myself, but, not daring to read an entertaining book, pored over some hard-headed, harder-hearted treatise on arithmetic; when the tables of weights and measures set themselves to tunes, as Rule Britannia, or Away with Melancholy; when they wouldn't stand still to be learnt, but would go threading my grandmother's needle through my unfortunate head, in at one ear and out at the other!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

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 into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

At the present moment, for example, I should be writing a treatise instead of conversing with you.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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 into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Among the rest, I was much diverted with a little old treatise, which always lay in Glumdalclitch’s bed chamber, and belonged to her governess, a grave elderly gentlewoman, who dealt in writings of morality and devotion.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)