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{tracto, Laiin.] To discourse on; to use in any manner, 
good or bad—He treated his prisoner with great harshness. 
Spectator. —To handle; to manage; to carry on.—Zeuxis 
and Polygnotus treated their subjects in their pictures, as 
Homer did in his poetry. Dri/den. —To entertain without 
expence to the guest. 
To TREAT, v. n. {traiter, French; tpahtian, Saxon.] 
To discourse ; to make discussions.—Of love they treat till 
the evening star appear’d. Milton. —To practice nego¬ 
tiation.—The king treated with them. 2 Mac. —To come 
to terms of accommodation. 
You Master Dean frequent the great, 
Inform us, will the emperor treat ? Swift. 
To make gratuitous entertainments.—If we do not please, 
at least we treat. Prior. 
TREAT, s. An entertainment given. 
This is the ceremony of my fate; 
A parting treat, and I’m to die in state. Pry den. 
Something given at an entertainment. 
Dry figs and grapes, and wrinkled dates were set, 
In canisters t’ enlarge the little treat. Pryden. 
TRE'ATABLE, adj. [traitab/e, French.] Moderate; 
not violent; tractable.—A virtuous mind should rather wish 
to depart this world with a kind of treatable dissolution, 
than be suddenly cut oft' in a moment, rather to be taken 
than snatched away. Hooker. 
TRE'ATABLY, adv. Not with violence; moderately. 
—In the meanwhile there will be always some skilful persons, 
which can teach a way how to grind treatably the church 
with jaws that shall scarce move, and yet devour in the end 
more than they that come ravening with open mouth, as if 
they would worry the whole in an instant. Hooker. 
TRE'ATER, s. One who discourses.—Speeches better 
becoming a senate of Venice, where the treaters are per¬ 
petual princes. Wotton.— One who gives an entertainment. 
TRE'ATISE, s. [ tractntus , Latin.] Discourse; written 
tractate. 
The time has been my fell of hair 
Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir 
As life were in’t. Sha/cspeare. 
TRE'ATISER, s. One who writes a treatise. Not in use. 
—I tremble to speak it in the language of this black-mouthed 
treatiser. Feat/ey. 
TRE'ATMENT, s. [ traitment , French.] Usage; man¬ 
ner of using good or bad.—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. Addison. 
—Entertainment.—Accept such treatment as a swain affords. 
Pope. 
TRE'ATY, s. {traite, French.] Negotiation; act of 
treating. 
She began a treaty to procure 
And stablish terms betwixt both their requests. Spenser. 
A compact of accommodation relating to public affairs.— 
A peace was concluded, being rather a bargain than a treaty. 
Bacon. —[For entreaty.] Supplication;petition; solicitation. 
I must 
To the young man send humble treaties, dog, 
And palter in the shift of lowness. Shakspearc. 
Treatise. Obsolete. — The Scotch have tretie in this 
sense. See Jamieson. —In the first part of this treaty of 
obedience of subjects to their princes. Homily against 
Rebellion. 
TREBBI, or Treppin, a small town of the Prussian pro¬ 
vince of Brandenburg, on the river Rude, surrounded by 
morasses. It has 1200 inhabitants, and is 22 miles south- 
by-west of Berlin, and 16 south-south-east of Potsdam. 
TREBEL, a small river on the confines of Mecklenburg 
and Pomerania, which falls into the Peene at Demmin. 
TREBELLIANICA, or Trebkllian* Fourth, in the 
Roman Jurisprudence, a right belonging to an lreir instituted 
by testament. If the testator, after appointing a full and 
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general heir, spent and disposed of all his effects in legacies; 
or if he went ultra dodrantem, beyond three-fourths thereof; 
in that case, the heir was allow’ed to retrench and detain one 
fourth part of the legacies to his own use. This was called 
the trebe/lianica. 
In like manner, if the testator charges his heir with a feoff¬ 
ment of trust, and to restore the inheritance to another; in 
that case the heir might likewise retain a fourth of the whole 
succession, that the quality of heir might not be rendered 
wholly vain and fruitless. 
TREBELLIUS (Pollio), a Latin historian, flourished 
about the year 298 of the vulgar era. According to Vopiscus, 
he wrote the lives of the Roman Emperors from the two 
Philips to Claudius; but we have extant only the latter part 
of the reign of the elder Valerian, that of his son, the lives of 
the two Gallieni, those of the thirty tyrants, and that of 
Claudius. He is reckoned one of the “ Historise Augustas 
Scriptores,” and praised by Vopiscus for his exactness, which 
applies only to some dates, as in other points he is very incor¬ 
rect. His style is somewhat superior to that of the other his¬ 
torians. Vossius. 
TREBES, a small town in the south of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Aude, near the canal of Languedoc; 6 miles 
south-east of Carcassonne. 
TREBIA, orTREBBiA, a river in the north of Italy, in 
the duchy of Parma, which rises among the Appennines, 
and falls into the Po above Piacenza. 
TREBIGH, or Turbigh, a hamlet of England, in Corn¬ 
wall ; 4] miles west-south-west of Collington. 
TREBlSOND, a considerable city of Asia Minor, on the 
coast of the Black Sea. It is very ancient, and is mentioned 
by Xenophon, under the appellation of Trapezus, as form¬ 
ing the termination of the retreat of the Ten Thousand. At 
the southern extremity of the town is the citadel, which 
commands a full view of the city and environs. Mountains 
rise behind Trebisond, but of less elevation than along the 
rest of the neighbouring coast of Asia Minor; and they are 
in a very high state of cultivation, producing barley, flax, 
and wine. Lat. 37. 23. N. long. 39. 43. E. 
TREBITSCH, or Trf.bitz, a small town of the Austrian 
states, in Moravia, on the Iglawa. It contains 3700 inha¬ 
bitants, of wdiom a number are Jews; 20 miles east-south¬ 
east of Iglau. 
TRE'BLE, adj. {triple, French; triplus, triplex, Lat.l 
Threefold; triple. 
All his malice served but to bring forlh 
Infinite goodness, grace and mercy shewn 
On man by him seduc’d; but on himself 
Treble confusion, wrath and vengeance pour’d. Milton, 
Sharp of sound. A musical term. — The sharper or 
quicker percussion of air causeth the more treble sound, and 
the lower or heavier the bass sound. Bacon. 
To TRE'BLE, v. a. {triplico, Latin; tripler, French.] 
To multiply by three; to make thrice as much. 
I would not be ambitious in my wish. 
To wish myself much better; yet for you, 
I would be trebled twenty times myself, 
A thousand times more fair. Shakspeare. 
To TRE'BLE, v. n. To become threefold.—Whoever 
annually runs out, as the debt doubles and trebles upon him, 
so doth his inability to pay it. Swift. 
TRE'BLE, s. [The chorister or boy who usually carried 
the thurible or incense-pot, in the devotions of the church 
of Rome, was called puer thuribularis; and I have heard 
it a happy conjecture of a most ingenious friend, that a treble 
voice in music was owing to the small and shrill tone of the 
thuribular or incense-boy : as the said boy, carrying a little 
tinkling bell in.one hand, might possibly give the name of 
treble, to the least bell. Co-well] The highest or acutest 
part of music; the smallest of a ring of bells; a sharp 
sound.—The treble cutteth the air so sharp, as it returneth 
too swift to make the sound equal; and therefore a mean or 
tenor is the sweetest. Bacon. 
TR'EBLENESS, s. The state of being, treble.—The just 
proportion 
