treat (tret)

[Early mod. E. also sometimes traict; F. traiter = Pr. tractar = Sp. Pg. tratar = It. tratt are, use. 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 inc or- porated company or private society are depos 3t. To addre ; discourse to. From this tyme forth, tyme is to holde my peas; Hit werieth me this matier for to trete. ited and disbursed. The treasury was well filled, and, as against France and Scotland, England was of one mind. Stubbs, Const. Hist., § 360. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 54. Then Teutra tho triet men tretid o this wise: "Ye worship full weghes, well be you euer. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5309. 41. To negotiate; settle. treat This worthy man cometh to me Here, as I beleue, for to trete a pees. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4173. I went to see Sir John Stone house, with whom I was treating a marriage between my Sonn and his daughter in-law. Evelyn , Diary, Nov. 27, 1679. 5. To handle, manipulate, or develop in any manner, especially in writing or speaking, or by any of the proce es of art. Zeuxis and Polygnotus treated their subjects in their pictures as Homer did in his poetry. Dryden. The way in which he [Berlioz) treats it in several parts of the first movement has some of the characteristic qualities of the best kind of development of ideas and figures, in the purely musical sense. Grove, Dict. Music, IV. 39. 6. To look upon; consider; regard. The Court of Rome treats it as the immediate suggesDe Quincey, Military Nun, v. ( Encyc. Dict.) tion of Hell-open to no forgivene . IMG:content-0792.png:[blocks in formation] To us to shore, with wofull treats and teares. Vicars, tr. of Virgil (1632). ( Nares .) Dutchman's treat, Dutch treat, a repast or other entertainment in which each person pays for himself. [Slang, U. S.]-To stand treat, to pay the expenses of an entertainment for another or others; entertain gratuitously; treat. [Colloq.] stood treat to the ladies at the restaurateur's. = They went out to Versailles with their families; loyally Thackeray , Philip, xx. treat ablet (trēʻta-bl), a. [ tretable , trait able, F. trait able = Sp. Sp. tratable = Pg. tratavel . It. tratt a bile , tractabilis , manageable, tractable, tract are , manage, treat: see treat . Cf. tractable , a doublet of treatable .] 1. Tractable; well-disposed; affable. O. W. Holmes, Med. E ays, p. 318. 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. I... gan me aqueynte With him, and fond him so tretable, Right wonder skilful and res on able. Chaucer , Death of Blanche, 1. 533. 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 2. Yielding; complaisant. drink to, as a compliment or an expre ion of friendline or regard. With apples sweet he did me treat. Andrew Lammie (Child's Ballads, II. 193). "Sir, if you please, I beg that I may treat mi ." "We'll settle that another time," answered Mr. Brangh ton, and put down a guinea. Two tickets of admi ion were given to him. Mi Burney, Evelina, xxi. After leaving it and pa ing out of the two circles of walls, I treated myself, in the most infatuated manner, to another walk round the Cité. H. James, Jr., Little Tour, p. 153. 10t. To entreat; beseech; solicit. Now here's a friend doth to thy fame confe e Thy wit were greater if thy worke were le e. He from thy labour treats thee to give o're, And then thy ease and wit will be much more. Leteth youre ire, and beth somwhat tretable . Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 411. God had furnished him with excellent endowments of nature, a treatable disposition, a strong memory, and a ready invention. Parr , Abp. Usher, p. 2. ( Latham .) 3. Disposed; inclined. Tretable to alle gode. Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 923. 4. Moderate; not violent or exce ive. Yet somewhat there is why a virtuous mind should rather wish to depart this world with a kind of treatable di olution than to be suddenly cut off in a moment. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 46. His [the country parson's] voice is humble, his words treatable and slow. G. Herbert, Country Parson, vi. treatablyt (tre'ta-bli), adv. [ME. tretably; II. in trans. 1. To discourse; handle in writing or speaking; make discu ion: formerly used absolutely, now followed usually by of , rarely by upon . Now wol I speke of othes false and grete A word or two, as olde books trete [var. entrete). 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 Dre . Congreve , tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 2. To negotiate, especially for peace; discu terms of accommodation: used absolutely or with a limiting phrase. I do perceive Two armèd men single, that give us summons As they would treat. Fletcher ( and another ), Queen of Corinth, iv. 3. The Britans, finding themselvs maister'd in fight, forth with send Emba adors to treat of peace. Milton , Hist. Eng., ii. Wearied and driven to despair, these soldiers were will Motley, Dutch Republic, III. 439. ing to treat. 3. To give an entertainment which costs the recipient nothing; especially, to bear the expense of food, drink, or any pleasure for another as a compliment nent or or expre ion expre ion of good will. Com pare to stand treat, under treat, n. [Colloq.] Our gen'rous Scenes for Friendship we repeat; And, if we don't Delight, at least we Treat . Prior, Prol. to the Orphan.