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Definition of: treatise
(trē′tis) noun
1. An elaborate, formal, and systematic literary composition presenting a serious subject in all its parts: distinguished from an essay in being longer, more exhaustive, and less popular, and from a monograph in being less full and complete.
2. Obs. A story; tale. [<AF tretiz, OF traitier TREAT]
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