"tractation" meaning in English

See tractation in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From Latin tractatio. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|tractatio}} Latin tractatio Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} tractation
  1. (obsolete) treatment or handling of a subject; discussion Tags: obsolete
{
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "tractatio",
      "tractatio#Latin"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "tractatio"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin tractatio",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin tractatio.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "tractation",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              17
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1619, Joseph Hall, Via media, The Way of Peace:",
          "text": "a full tractation of the points controverted",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              17
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "In the tractation of all which things our chief purpose and endeavour shall be (so near as the Lord will give us grace), not so much to intermeddle with outward affairs of princes[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "treatment or handling of a subject; discussion"
      ],
      "id": "en-tractation-en-noun-d6dGl194",
      "links": [
        [
          "treatment",
          "treatment"
        ],
        [
          "subject",
          "subject"
        ],
        [
          "discussion",
          "discussion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) treatment or handling of a subject; discussion"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tractation"
}
{
  "etymology_links": [
    [
      "tractatio",
      "tractatio#Latin"
    ]
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "tractatio"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin tractatio",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin tractatio.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "tractation",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English undefined derivations",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              17
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1619, Joseph Hall, Via media, The Way of Peace:",
          "text": "a full tractation of the points controverted",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              7,
              17
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "In the tractation of all which things our chief purpose and endeavour shall be (so near as the Lord will give us grace), not so much to intermeddle with outward affairs of princes[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "treatment or handling of a subject; discussion"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "treatment",
          "treatment"
        ],
        [
          "subject",
          "subject"
        ],
        [
          "discussion",
          "discussion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) treatment or handling of a subject; discussion"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tractation"
}

Download raw JSONL data for tractation meaning in English (1.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.