tractation
English
editEtymology
editNoun
edittractation
- (obsolete) treatment or handling of a subject; discussion
- 1619, Joseph Hall, Via media, The Way of Peace:
- a full tractation of the points controverted
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tractation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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editFrench
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin tractātiō.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittractation f (plural tractations)
- (often in the plural) negotiation
- Synonym: négociation
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “tractation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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