0 a formal piece of writing that considers and examines a particular subject: --
1 a formal piece of writing that deals with a particular subject: --
a medical treatise
She compiled her hymnal and wrote other devotional treatises out of a sense of duty to teach her faith to children and other ordinary people.
In some treatises, elocutio includes both 'figures of thought' and 'figures of speech'.
She reads cases, treatises, letters, prefaces, and epigraphs with as much sensitivity to nuance as she applies to novels.
The occurrence of the first part of the statement, 'nova sunt pulchritudine decorata', in both treatises does not seem to be mere coincidence.
In addition to these musical sources, several treatises describe the theoretical foundations of the new style.
Spiritualist treatises are, in most cases, dreary compendiums of facts and observations.
Whereas the narrator attributes treatises and sermons to men, he ascribes novel writing to women.
His books and treatises became relied upon to the point that they replaced the books of those shaykhs who preceded him.
