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- noun Plural form of
treatise .
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Examples
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Extreme sensibility often appears in treatises on madness as a state on its borderline that can easily slip into insanity.
Ildiko Csengei 2008
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Footnotes, annotations and indexes in treatises and legal encyclopedias are easily tracked while a researcher reads print volumes, revealing research threads and nuances of law that may not be readily apparent at first glance.
Thomson West Committed to Shoring Up Print Sales, Duplication of Formats 2006
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In this sense, the inclusion of scientific ideas in treatises on practice reflects the spirit of public participation.
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The widths given in English treatises, and found perfectly practicable there, with proper drainage-tools, will seem to us exceedingly narrow.
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French
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A great number of persons have commented on the 'Makâmat,' some in long and others in short treatises, and many consider it to be the most elegantly written, and the most amusing, work in the Arabic language.
Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature F. F. Arbuthnot 1867
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He wrote, in Latin, treatises on divinity and morals, and a History of Greater
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(vegetative, external and internal senses, the motive faculties, practical and theoretical intellect) appears in Latin treatises by masters of arts and theologians.
Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on the Latin West Hasse, Dag Nikolaus 2008
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But given his frequent moods swings, his tendency to project substance abuse problems onto others and his proclivity for writing 15,000 word treatises in defense of poor comprehension, there do seem to be a few excessive tendencies in evidence.
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At first he was daunted, but remembering there yet remained six weeks of vacation, he addressed himself to the necessary labor — the severity of which is best evidenced by the fact that in the short time above mentioned he read Sallust, the odes of Horace, two books of Livy, three books of the Anabasis, two books of the Iliad, and certain English treatises.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various
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And here we may notice a peculiarity of Owen's treatises, which is at once an excellence and a main cause of their redundancies.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various
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