treasure 
"Will" will fulfil the treasure of thy love. 
Shak., Sonnets, cxxxvi. 
Treasure Of merits, in Horn. Cath. theol., the merits of 
Christ and the saints treasured up, from which satisfac- 
tion is made, as of a debt, for the sins of others. 
Indulgence ... is "a juridical absolution," including 
a payment of the debt from the treasure of the merits of 
Christ and the saints. Calh. Diet., p. 441. 
treasure (trczh'ur), v. t.; pret. and pp. trea- 
Kiirvil, ppr. treasuring. [< treasure, .] 1. To 
hoard up; lay up in store; collect and lay up, 
as money or other valuables, for future use or 
for preservation; accumulate; store: usually 
with up. 
And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to 
the Lord ; it shall not be treasured nor laid up. 
Isa. xxiii. 18. 
Some thought it mounted to the lunar sphere. 
Since all things lost on earth are treasured there. 
Pope, R. of the L., v. 114. 
Prayers uttered in secret, according to God's will, are 
treasured up in God's Book of Life. 
J. II. Newman, Parochial Sermons, i. 245. 
2. To retain carefully in the mind: often with 
up. 
Mem'ry, like the bee, . . . 
The quintessence of all he read 
Had treasur'd up before. 
Cowper, Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library. 
The patient search and vigil long 
Of him who treasures up a wrong. 
Byron, Mazeppa, x. 
3. To regard as precious; prize. 
Somewhat did the fresh young day beguile 
His treasured sorrow when he woke next morn. 
WUliam Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. 97. 
4f. To furnish or endow with treasures ; enrich. 
[Bare.] 
Treasure thou some place 
With beauty's treasure, ere it be self-kill'd. 
Shak., Sonnets, vi. 
treasure-chest (trezh'ur-chest),H. 1. A strong 
box made to contain gold, silver, jewels, or 
other articles of value. 2. Figuratively, a 
treasury. 
A mere review, however, of the payments into and out 
6450 
an early date a Chancellor of the Exchequer. But in the 
reign of George I. the great office of Lard lliyh Treasurer 
was, in English phrase, put permanently "into commis- 
sion" : its duties, that is, were intrusted to a board instead 
of to a single individual. W. Wilson, State, 696. 
Lord high treasurer of Scotland, formerly, an officer 
whose duty it was to examine and pass the accounts of 
the sheriffs and others concerned in levying the revenues 
of the kingdom, to receive resignations of lands and other 
subjects, and to revise, compound, nnd pass signatures, 
gifts of tutory, etc. In 1663 the lord high treasurer was 
declared president of the court of exchequer. Trea- 
surer Of a County, in England, an official who keeps the 
county stock, which is raised by rating every parish yearly 
and is disposed to charitable uses. There are two trea- 
surers in each county, chosen by the majority of the jus- 
tices of the peace, etc., at Easter sessions. Treasurer 
Of the household, an official in the lord steward's de- 
partment of the royal household of the United Kingdom 
who bears a white staff, and ranks next to the lord stew- 
ard. He is a member of the privy council and of the 
ministry, and is a peer or a peer's son. Treasurer of 
the poor, in Delaware, a State officer having charge of 
certain departments of the administration of State chari- 
ties. Treasurer of the United States, an officer of the 
Treasury Department who receives and keeps the moneys 
of the United States, disbursing them only upon warrants 
drawn by the Secretary of the Treasury, and duly recorded 
and countersigned. The payment of interest on the pub- 
lic debt, and the issue and redemption of notes, are in his 
charge. States, cities, boroughs, and towns also have trea- 
surers ; in some cases the State treasurer has the title of 
treasurer and receiver-general. 
treasurersMp (trezh'ur-er-ship), . [< trea- 
surer + -ship."\ The office of treasurer. 
The king landed on the 9th of February, 1432 ; on the 
26th Hungerford had to resign the treasurership to John 
lord le Scrope of Masham. Stubbs, Const. Hist., 336. 
treasuress (trezh'ur-es), n. [< treasurer + -ess. ] 
A woman who has charge of a treasure ; a fe- 
male treasurer. [Bare. ] 
You, Lady Muse, whom Jove the counsellor 
Begot of Memory, wisdom's treasuress. 
Sir J. Davies, Dancing. 
treasure-trove (trezh'ur-trov'), n. [Early mod. 
E. also thresor trouve ; <MF. tresor trove, <OF. 
* tresor trove, a treasure found: tresor, treasure; 
ti'ore, pp. of trover, trouver, find : see trm'er.~] 
Treasure found and appropriated ; specifically, 
treasure-city (trezh'ur-sit'i), . A city for 
stores and magazines. 
And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities [store cities, 
R. V.], Pithom and Raamses. Ex. i. 11. 
treasure-flower (trezh'ur-flou"er), M. A plant 
of the genus Gazama. G. Pavonia, distinguished as 
the peacock treasure-flower, has heads nearly 3 inches broad 
and of an orange color with a dark center, expanding only 
in sunshine. It is an ornament of the wayside in South 
tresvrehous; < treasure + house 1 .] A house or 
building where treasures and stores are kept ; 
a place where hoarded riches or precious things 
are kept ; a treasury. 
So in the Italian language the first that made it aspire 
to be a Treasure-house of Science were the Poets Dante, 
Boccace, and Petrarch. 
Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetrie, p. 21. 
treasurer (trezh'ur-er), n. [Early mod. E. also 
threasurer; < ME. tresurer, tresurere, tresorer, 
tresorere, tresourer, treserowr, < OF. tresorer, tre- 
sorier, thresorier, F. tresorier= Pr. thesaurier = 
Sp. tesorero = Pg. thesoureiro = It. tesoriere, < 
ML. thesauraritts, a treasurer, < thesaurus, a 
treasure: see treasure.'] 1. One who or that 
which treasures or stores up; one who has 
charge of treasure. 
Out of this tonne help me through your might, 
Sin that ye wole nat ben my tresorere. 
Chaucer, Purse, 1. 18. 
And when thy ruins shall disclaim 
To be the treasurer of his name, 
His name, that cannot die, shall be 
An everlasting monument to thee. 
B. Jonxon, Epitaph on Drayton (Underwoods, xvii.). 
2. Specifically, one who has the care of a trea- 
plate, or bullion, of unknown ownership, found 
hidden in the earth or in any private place'. In 
this case, in English law, the treasure belongs to the crown ; 
but if the owner is known, or is ascertained after the trea- 
sure is found, the owner and not the crown is entitled to 
it. It is, however, the practice of the crown to pay the 
finder the full value of the property on its being delivered 
up. On the other hand, should the finder conceal or ap- 
propriate it, he is guilty of an indictable offense punishable 
by tine and imprisonment. In the United States the term 
is not often used, and has no technical legal meaning. 
The finder of a thing upon land is, If the owner be un- 
known, its lawful custodian, and if he cannot be found be- 
comes its owner. If the former owner is found, the finder 
cannot withhold the thing to exact a reward, unless such 
reward has been offered. 
Your honor knoweth that Thresor trouve is a very casuall 
thing ; and of which, althowgh the Prerogative of the 
Queens Majestic do entitle to her a proprietie, yet how 
seldonie her Grace hath hitherto receyved any commodity 
therby, it is to your honor better known than unto me. 
John Dee (Ellis's Lit, Letters, p. 37). 
treasuroust (trezh 'ur-us), a. [< treasure + 
-OMS.] Worthy of being treasured, prized, or 
regarded as a treasure. [Bare.] 
Goddess full of grace, 
And treasurous angel t' all the human race. 
Chapman, tr. of Homer's Hymn to Earth, 1. 29. 
treasury (trezh'ur-i), n.; pi. treasuries (-iz). 
[< ME. tresorie, tresorye, thresorye, tresoure, < 
OF. tresorie, contr. of tresorerie, thresorerie, F. 
tresorer ic = Pr. thezauraria = Sp. tesoreria = 
It. tesoreria = Pg. thesotiraria, thesouria, < ML. 
thesauraria, a treasury, <L. thesaurus, treasure: 
see treasure.] 1. A house, room, or chest where 
treasure is laid up. 
And zet is the Plate of Gold in the Thresorye of the 
Chirche. Mandemlle, Travels, p. IS. 
And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how 
the people cast money into the treasury. Mark xii. 41. 
!. Figuratively, that wherein something pre- 
treat 
4. A department of government which has con- 
trol over the collection, management, and ex- 
penditure of the public revenue. See Dcpurt- 
men t of the Treasury, under tlepartmcu t. The du- 
ties of this department of the British government are now 
performed by a board of five lords commissioners in- 
stead of a lord high treasurer, as formerly. The chief of 
these commissioners, or first lord of the treasury, is usu- 
ally prime minister, and may be a member of either house 
of Parliament. The virtual head of the treasury Is the 
chancellor of the exchequer. (See chancellor, 3 (cj.) The 
duties of the three remaining members of the board, the 
junior lords, are merely formal, the heaviest part of the ex- 
ecutive functions devolving on the two joint secretaries of 
the department (the patronage secretary and the financial 
secretary), who are also members of the lower house, and 
on a permanent secretary. The custody of the public rev- 
enue is vested in the exchequer, but the function of pay- 
ment belongs to the treasury, consequently all sums with- 
drawn from the exchequer must be vouched for by a 
treasury warrant. The treasury has the appointment of 
all officers engaged in the collection of the public revenue ; 
the army, navy, and civil-service supplies are issued under 
its authority; and all exceptional cases and disputes re- 
lating to the public revenue are referred to its decision. 
Several Important state departments are under the gen- 
eral authority or regulation of the treasury. 
5. The officers of the British treasury depart- 
ment. 6. A name given to a class of subter- 
ranean monuments consisting usually of a solid 
structure of masonry, of domical form, often 
with pseudo-vaulting in horizontal courses, ei- 
ther wholly underground or covered with a tu- 
mulus. Familiar examples are the structures of this type 
at Mycenre and at Orchomenus. in Greece. The name is er- 
roneous, as these structures are now recognized as tombs. 
7f. Treasure. 
Thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife's attire 
Have cost a mass of public treasury. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. 3. 134. 
Independent Treasury system, or Subtreasury sys- 
tem, the present system of fiscal administration of the 
United States government, whereby certain officers, under 
bonds, receive, disburse, transfer, and account to the Sec- 
retary of the Treasury for the moneys of the government. 
Formerly the public moneys were deposited with the State 
banks, or, during their existence, with the first and second 
United States banks. In 1840 a law was enacted which di- 
same, and disburses it upon orders drawn by the 
proper authority; also, one who has the charge 
of collected funds, such as those belonging to 
incorporated companies or private societies. 
Now speke y wylle of tresurere [of a lord's household] 
Husbonde and housewyf he is in fere 
Of the resayuer he shalle resayue, . 
The tresurer schalle gyfe alkyn wage. 
Babees Boole (E. E. T. S.), p. 318. 
Lord high treasurer, formerly, a great officer of the Brit- 
ish crown, who had under his charge and government all 
(he sovereign's revenue. The duties of the lord high trea- 
surer are now discharged by commissioners entitled Lords 
of the Treasury. See treasury. 
Oriirinallv the chief financial minister of the Crown was 
ir/h Treasurer, with whom was associated at 
O Glastonbury, Glastonbury, the treasurie of the car- 
cases of so famous and so many persons ! 
Canon law as a code, and the civil law of Rome as a 
treasury of procedure, working together in the hands of 
ecclesiastical lawyers, may be for the moment looked at 
together. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. S13. 
3. Specifically, a place where the public reve- 
nues are deposited and kept, and where money 
is disbursed to defray the expenses of govern- 
ment ; also, a place where the funds of an incor- 
porated company or private society are depos- 
ited and disbursed. 
" again 
e and 
Stubbs, Const. Hist., 360. 
mint at New Orleans be places of deposit. The treasurers 
of the United States and of the mints, the receivers-gen- 
eral, and all other officers charged with the custody of 
public money, were required to give bonds for its care and 
transfer when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury or 
Postmaster-General, and after June 30tn, 1843, payments 
to or by the United States were to be exclusively in gold 
and silver. The next year the law was repealed, but in 
1846 it was reenacted substantially, and has been contin- 
ued ever since, with some changes. In 1863 the national 
banks were authorized to receive deposits of the public 
money, except receipts from customers, after furnishing 
proper security therefor. Lords commissioners of the 
Treasury. Seedef. 5. Register of the Treasury. See 
register-'. Solicitor of the Treasury. See solicitor. 
Treasury bench, the front bench or row of seats on the 
righthand of the Speaker in the British Houseof Commons : 
so called because occupied by the first lord of the trea- 
sury (when a commoner), the chancellor of the exchequer, 
and other members of the ministry. Treasury bill, an 
instrument of credit issued by the British government to 
the highest bidder when money is needed by the Com- 
missioners of the Treasury. These bills are drawn for 
three or six months, and as they bear no interest are ten- 
dered for at a discount, which varies with the rate cur- 
rent in the money-market. Treasury board, the five 
lords commissioners of the British Treasury. Treasury 
note, a note or bill issued by the Treasury Department, 
on the authority of the government, and receivable for 
government dues. Treasury warrant, a warrant or 
voucher issued by the treasury for sums disbursed by the 
exchequer. 
treat (tret), v. [Early mod. E. also sometimes 
traict; < ME. treten, < OF. treter, trailer, traicter 
F. fruiter = Pr. tractor = Sp. Pg. tratar = It. 
trattare, < L. traetare, handle, freq. of trahere, 
draw: see tracfl-, tract?, v. Cf. entreat, retreat.] 
I. trans. 1. To behave to or toward; conduct 
one's self in a certain manner with respect to ; 
use. 
She showed a little dislike at my raillery ; and, by her 
bridling up, I perceived she expected to be treated here- 
after not as Jenny Distaff, but Mrs. Tranquillus. 
Steele, Taller, No. 104. 
The doctrines and rites of the established religion they 
treated with decent reverence. JUacaulay, Machiavelli. 
They [persons] melt so fast into each other that they 
are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat 
them as individuals. Emerson, Nominalist and Realist. 
2f. To discuss; discourse of ; consider. 
And thei camen to Cafarnaum. And whanne thei weren 
in the hous he axide hem, What tretiden je in the weie? 
Wyclif, Mark ix. 32. 
From this tyme forth, tyme is to holde my peas ; 
Hit werieth me this matier for to trete. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 54. 
3f. To address ; discourse to. 
Then Teutra tho triet men tretid o this wise : 
" Ye worshipfull weghes, well be you euer. " 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.)> L 5309, 
4t. To negotiate; settle. 
