treat 
This worthy man cometh to me 
Urn-, ii.-* I MlflMi for to trrt<- ;i pees. 
/;,,,. ,,j /'(irtrn.iy tK. I: T. *.1,\. 4173. 
I went t" see Sir John stonehmisr, with lu>m I was 
ti'-iitiurfu 111:111 i:iL;r hrlwrrn my Sunn :uid his ilnilKhter- 
ill-liiw. /' l'i:iM, Nov. ^7, 1071*. 
5. To handle, manipulate, or develop in any 
manner, especially in writing cr speaking, or 
i>y any of the processes of art. 
Zeuxis and Polygnotus in-uinl thrir subjects in Ilit-ir 
pictures as Homer did in lii poetry. Ifryden. 
The way in which he [licrlioz] treatt it In several pnrt 
nf the (list movement has some of thechftracteriHtir qual 
itiea of the hest kind of development of Ideas and Iliiuren, 
in the purely musical sense. Once, Diet. Music, IV. 39. 
0. To look upon; consider; regard. 
The Court of Rome treats it as the Immediate sugges- 
tion of Hell - open to no forgiveness. 
he Quincey, Military Nun, v. (Kiieyc. Did.) 
7. To manage, in the application of remedies: 
as, to treat a fever or a patient. 
Disease is to be treated by anything that is proved to 
cure it. (). W. Uolme, Med. Essays, p. 818. 
8. To subject to the action of some chemical 
agent or reagent. 9. To entertain; give a 
pleasure or treat to; especially, to entertain 
without expense to the recipient; give food or 
drink to, as a compliment or an expression of 
friendliness or regard. 
With apples sweet he did me treat. 
Andrew Lammie (Child's Ballads, II. 103). 
"Sir, if yon please, I beg that I may treat miss." 
"We'll settle that another time," answered Mr. Brangh- 
ton, and put down a guinea. Two tickets of admission 
were given to him. Mitt Burney, Evelina, xxl. 
After leaving it and passing out of the two circles of 
walls, I treated myself, in the most Infatuated manner, to 
another walk round the Cite. 
//. Jama, Jr., Uttle Tour, p. 153. 
10f. To entreat; beseech; solicit. 
Now here 'a a friend doth to thy fame confesse 
Thy wit were greater if thy worke were lease. 
He from thy labour treats thee to give o're, 
And then thy ease and wit will he much more. 
John Taylor, Works (130). (Kara.) 
II. intrata. 1. Todiseourse; handle in writ- 
ing or speaking; make discussion: formerly 
used absolutely, now followed usually by of, 
rarely by upon. 
Now wol I speke of othes false and grete 
A word or two, aa olde books trete [var. enlrete}. 
Chaucer, Pardoner's Tale, 1. 168. 
A wonder stranger ne'er was known 
Than what I now shall treat upon. 
The Suffolk Miracle (Child's Ballads, I. 218). 
First, we treat of Dress. 
Congreve. tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 
2. To negotiate, especially for peace ; discuss 
terms of accommodation: used absolutely or 
with a limiting phrase. 
I do perceive 
Two armed men single, that give us summons 
As they would treat. 
Fletcher (and another). Queen of Corinth, iv. 8. 
The Brltans, finding themselvs maister'd in fight, forth- 
with send KmbasBadors to treat of peace. 
Milton, Hist Eng., II. 
Wearied and driven to despair, these soldiers were will- 
Ing to treat. Motley, Dutch Republic, III. 439. 
3. To give an entertainment which costs the re- 
cipient nothing; especially, to bear the expense 
of food, drink, or any pleasure for another as a 
compliment or expression of good will. Com- 
pare to stand treat, under treat, n. [Colloq.] 
Our gen'rous Scenes for Friendship we repeat ; 
And, it we don't Delight, at least we Treat, 
Prior, Prol. to the Orphan. 
treat (tret), n. [< ME. trete (orig. in two sylla- 
bles: see treaty): seethe verb.] If. Parley; 
conference ; treaty ; discourse ; discussion. 
Comynycasyon and trete schold be had betwyxt hys conn- 
sayle and myne. Ponton Letter*, I. 75. 
To leave to him that lady for excheat, 
Or bide him batteill without further treat. 
Speiuer, V. Q., III. vlii. Ifi. 
2. An entertainment given as a compliment or 
expression of regard. 
If she will go ! why, did you ever know a widow refuse a 
treat .' no more than a lawyer a fee. 
Wychcrley, Love in a Wood, I. 1. 
I dined with Mr. Addison and Dick Stuart, lord Mount- 
joy's brother : a treat of Addison's. 
Sirtft, Journal to Stella, vli. 
8. Something given as an entertainment ; 
something paid for in compliment to another. 
About four in the afternoon my wife and I by water to 
Captain Lambert's, where we took great pleasure in tin ir 
turret-garden, . . . and afterwards had a very handsome 
(rente, and good musiqtie that she made upon the harp 
slchon. Pepys. Diary, I. 195. 
4. One's turn to treat (see treat, r. i'., 3); espe- 
cially, one of several rounds of drinks: as. it is 
84B1 
my trrnt now. [Colloq.] 5. Anything which 
affords much pleasure; that which is peculiarly 
enjoyable ; unusual gratification. 
Carrion Is a treat to dogs, ravens, vultures, fish. 
I'aley, .Vat. Tbeol., xlx. 
6f. An entreaty. 
At last he headlong made 
To us to shore, with wofull treats and team. 
y tears, tr. of Virgil (1B32). (.Varrn.) 
Dutchman's treat, Dutch treat, a repast or 'other en- 
tertalnmi'nt In which each person pays for himself, [slang, 
I . S.I To Stand treat, to pay the expenses of an en- 
tertainment for another or others ; entertain gratuitously ; 
treat. [Colloq.) 
They went out to Versailles with their families; loyally 
stood treat to the ladles at the restaurateur's. 
Thackeray, Philip, xx. 
treatablet (tre'ta-bl), . [< OF. trctable, trail- 
able, F. traitiible'zs Sp. tra tulili = Pg. tratarel = 
It. triiiiniiili; < L. tniciiiliilig, manageable, tract- 
able, < tractare, manage, treat : see trent. Ct. 
tractable, a doublet of treatable.] 1. Tracta- 
ble; we 11-disposed ; affable. 
I ... gan me aqiieynte 
With him, and fond him so tretabU, 
Kight wonder skilful ami resonable. 
Chaucer, Death of Blanche, I. 533. 
2. Yielding; complaisant. 
Leteth youre Ire, and beth somwhat tretalile. 
Chaucer, Uood Women, 1. 411. 
(iod had furnished him with excellent endowment* of 
nature, a treatable disposition, a strong memory, and a 
ready invention. Parr, Abp. t'sher, p. 2. (Latham.) 
3. Disposed; inclined. 
Tretable to alle gode. 
Chaucer, Death of Blanche, I. 923. 
4. Moderate; not violent or excessive. 
Yet somewhat there Is why a virtuous mind should 
rather wish to depart this world with a kind of treatable 
dissolution than to be suddenly cut off In a moment. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 46. 
His [the country parson's) voice la humble, his words 
treatable and slow. G. Herbert, Country Parson, vi. 
treatablyt (tre'ta-bli), arfr. [ME. tretably; < 
treatable + -ty 2 .] Tractably; smoothly; with 
ease or moderation. 
So treatabHe speakyng as possible thou can, 
That the hearers therof may thee vnderstan. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. .), p. 342. 
There will be always some skilful persons which can 
teach a way how to grind treatably the Church with jaws 
that shall scarce move. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 79. 
Not too fast ; say [recite] tretably. 
Marston, What you Will, 11. 1. 
treater (tre'ter), n. [< treat + -cr 1 .] One who 
treats, in any sense of the word. 
treating (tre'tiug), n. [Verbal n. of treat, v.] 
The act of one who treats, in any sense, specifi- 
cally (a) The practice of Inviting one to drink as a com- 
pliment or aa a civility, often in return for the like favor 
previously shown, (b) Bribing in parliamentary (or other) 
elections with meat and drink; in Eng. law, the offense 
committed by a candidate who corruptly gives, causes to 
be given, or Is accessory to giving, or pays, wholly or In 
part, expenses for meat, drink, entertainment, or provision 
for any person, before, during, or after an election, inorder 
to be elected or for being elected, or for corruptly influen- 
cing any person to give or refrain from giving his vote. 
A voter who corruptly accepts treating is disqualified for 
the pending election, and his vote is void. 
treating-houset (tre'ting-hous), n. A house of 
refreshment. 
The taverns and treating -tanaet have eas'd yon of a 
round income. Gentleman Instructed, p. 2b7. (Davits.) 
treatise (tre'tis), n. [< ME. tretis, tretys, a 
treatise ; appar. a var., by confusion with tretis, 
made, esp. well made (see tretis 2 ), of trety, 
tretee, treaty : seefrcafy.] If. Discourse; talk; 
tale. 
Bat lest my liking might too sudden seem, 
I would have salved it with a longer treatise. 
Sink., Much Ado, L 1. 817. 
2. A written composition in which the prin- 
ciples of a particular subject are discussed 
or explained. A treatise is of an Indefinite length ; 
but the word ordinarily implies more form and method 
than an essay, and less fullness or copiousness than a sys- 
tem : yet the phrase systematic treatise is a very common 
designation of some classes of scientific writings. 
And amonges alle, I schewed hym this Tretys that I 
had made aftre informaciouu of men that knewen of 
thinges that I had not seen my self. 
Manderille, Travels, p. 314. 
The former treatise have I made, U Theophllus, of all 
that Jesus began both to do and teach. Acts I. 1. 
3f. A treaty. 
Crysede . . . 
Ful bisily to Juppiter besoghte, 
Oeve hym meschaunce that this Irrtu broghte. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 670. 
treatisert.treatisort (tre'ti-ser, -sor), n. [< trea- 
tise + -er l . -or 1 .] One who writes a treatise. 
Jerome speaks of the poisoned workes of Origen, and 
other dangerous Treatisors. 
Bp. Hall, Apology against Brownists, { 54 
treaty 
treatment [< MK. *tnttutnt, 
< OF. iriiitininii, F'. traiiiiii'iit = Pi.traetament 
= Sp. trilttlnililltit = II. h'nlliinii-ntn, < Ml.. 
Ifiiftiimi-iiliiiii, management. 1 1 > at tin-lit, alO a 
,.< I.. tnetOn, handle, manage, treat: 
see treat.] The act or the manner of treating, 
in any sense. 
I speak this with an eye to those cruel treatments which 
men of all sides are apt to give the characters of those who 
do not agree with them. Addiion, Spectator, No. 243. 
Little, alas! Is all the good I can, . . . 
Accept such treatment as a swain affords. 
Pope, Odyssey, xlv. 71. 
The question with the modern physician Is not, as with 
the ancient, "shall the treatment he so and so," but "shall 
there be any treatment beyond a wholesome regimen." 
U. Spencer. 
The coda, (of Schumann's < Major Symphony) Is made by 
fresh treatment of the figures of the principal subject* In 
vigorous and brilliant development. 
Orme, Diet Music, IV. SS. 
Pragmatic treatment. See pragmatic. 
treaturet (trc'tur), n. [<. late ME. treature; < 
treat + -urc.] "Treatment. 
He that hath all thynges siiblectc to his hestes, aa here 
U shewed by worchynge of his treature by this water. 
Fabyan, Cliron. , ccvl. 
treaty (tre'ti), . ; pi. trtnlicx (-tiz). [< ME. 
trety, tretee, trete, < OF. traiif, traictt, F. traite 
= Pr. tractat = Sp. Pg. tratnrio = It. trattato, 
< ML. tractatu*, a conference, assembly, agree- 
ment, treaty (in a great variety of senses), < L. 
traetart, pp. tractatux, handle, manage, treat: 
see treat, and cf. treatise.] It. A discourse ; 
account; document; treatise. 
Beyonde the terage (territory) of Troy, as the trety sayse, 
There was a wonderful! wethur . . . 
Withaflese . . . of gold. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 144. 
Now, leeue freendis, greete and smale, 
That haue herde this trete, 
Prale for the aoule that wroot this tale 
A Pater noster, A an aue. 
Hymns to Yiryin, etc. (E. E. T. 8.X p. 78. 
2f. The act of treating or handling; conduct; 
management; treatment; negotiation; discus- 
sion; diplomacy. 
By aly and wys trrtee. Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 448. 
Host. They call me Ooodstock. 
Lor. Sir, and you confess It, 
Both In your language, treaty, and your bearing. 
11. Joiuon, New Inn, I. 1. 
3. An agreement; a compact; specifically, a 
league or contract between two or more nations 
or sovereigns, in modern usage formally signed 
by commissioners properly authorized, and 
solemnly ratified by the several sovereigns or 
the supreme power of each state. The term treaty 
includes all the various transactions into which states 
enter between themselves, such as treaties of peace or of 
alliance, truces, and conventions. Treaties may be for 
political or for commercial purposes, in which latter form 
they are usually temporary. In most monarchies the pow. 
er of making and ratifying treaties is vested in the sover- 
eign : In the I'nlted States of America It Is vested In the 
President, by and with the consent of the Senate. Treaties 
may be concluded and signed by diplomatic agents, but 
these, of course, must be furnished with full powers by 
the sovereign authority of their respective states. 
Trratie*, allowed under the law of nations, are uncon- 
strained acts of independent powers, placing them under 
an obligation to do something which is not wrong. 
Wooltey, Introd. to Inter. Law, | 98. 
In the language of modem diplomacy the term treaty 
is restricted to the more important international agree- 
ments, especially to those which are the work of a con- 
gress, while agreements dealing with subordinate ques- 
tions are described by the more general term "conven- 
tion." Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 530. 
4t. An entreaty. 
Now I must 
To the young man send humble treaties, dodge 
And palter in the shifts of lowness. 
Shak., A. and C., 111. 11. 62. 
Barrier, convention, extradition, fishery, recipro- 
city treaty. See the qualifying words. - Treaties of 
guaranty. See guaranty. Treaty-making power, 
that power of sovereignty which Is exercised in the mak- 
ing of treaties with foreign nations. Although it extends 
to all classes of treaties, Including commercial treaties, a 
treaty made by virtue of it does not have the effect to over- 
ride the revenue laws of the country when In conflict with 
them ; nor does a treaty Itself operate as equivalent to an 
act of the legislature in a case where the act of the legis- 
lature would be otherwise essential. In such case the 
treaty is regarded as a stipulation for legislative action, 
which must he had before the courts can enforce the treaty 
provision ; for, except so far as the treaty Is exterritorial, 
it does not dispense with the necessity of legislation to 
carry its stipulations Into effect. Treaty of Adriano- 
ple, a treaty between Russia and Turkey in 1829, favor- 
able to the former. Treaty of Alx-la-Chapelle. (a) A 
treaty In 1668, ending the war between France and Spain. 
(b) A treaty In 174S, terminating the War of the Austrian 
Succession.- Treaty of Amiens, a treaty between France 
and Its allies and (ireat Britain in 1802, ending temporarily 
the contest between these nations Treaty of Augs- 
burg, a treaty In 15S5 by which religions liberties were 
secured to the Catholics and Lutherans of Germany. 
Treaty of Belgrade, a treaty between Turkey and Aus- 
