a treatise

  • 1Treatise (music) — Treatise is a musical composition by British composer Cornelius Cardew (1936 1981). Treatise is a graphic musical score comprising 193 pages of lines, symbols, and various geometric or abstract shapes that eschew conventional musical notation.… …

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  • 2treatise — index hornbook Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 treatise …

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  • 3Treatise — Trea tise, n. [OE. tretis, OF. treitis, traitis, well made. See {Treat}.] 1. A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] He published a treatise in which he… …

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  • 4Treatise on Ammunition — Treatise on Ammunition, from 1926 retitled Text Book of Ammunition, is a series of manuals detailing all British Empire military and naval service ammunition and associated equipment in use at the date of publication, published by the War Office… …

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  • 5Treatise on natural philosophy — Le Treatise on Natural Philosophy (Traité de philosophie naturelle) est un ouvrage scientifique de 1867 rédigé par Peter Guthrie Tait et William Thomson. Il est considéré comme un des livres ayant défini la physique moderne. Portail de la… …

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  • 6Treatise on Natural Philosophy — was an 1867 text book by William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) and Peter Guthrie Tait, published by Oxford University Press, that did much to define the modern discipline of physics …

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  • 7treatise on the law — index hornbook Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 8treatise — (n.) c.1300, from Anglo Fr. tretiz (mid 13c.), contracted from O.Fr. traiteiz, from Gallo Romance *tractaticius, from L. tractare to deal with (see TREAT (Cf. treat)) …

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  • 9treatise — *disquisition, dissertation, thesis, monograph, *discourse Analogous words: article, paper, *essay: *exposition …

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  • 10treatise — [n] written study of a subject argument, book, commentary, composition, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, essay, exposition, memoir, monograph, pamphlet, paper, review, script, thesis, tract, tractate, work, writing; concepts 271 …

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