treat, trayte, treate, treaten, trete, treten, trety

t. & i. [Fr. traiter =to treat, from Lat. tracto to handle, frequent. from traho (pa. par. tractus )=to draw.] A. Transitive : 1. To behave to or toward; to conduct one's self to or toward in a particular manner; to act well or ill toward; to use in any way. "At present they have but little idea of treating others as themselves would wish to be treated , but treat them as they expect to be treated ."-Cook: Second Voyage, bk. ii., ch. v. 2. To handle or develop in a particular manner, in writing or speaking, or by the proce of art. "Zeuxis and Polygnotus treated their subjects in their pictures, as Homer did in his poetry."-Dryden: Dufresnoy. 3. To manage in the application of remedies; as, to treat a disease or a patient. 4. To subject to the action of; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid. *5. To discourse of; to speak of or on; to discu , "And the i camen to Cafarnaum and whanne the i weren in the hous he axide hem what tretiden ye in the we ye?" -Wycliffe: Mark ix. *6. To negotiate, to settle. "To treate a peace atwene both prynces."- Fabian : Chronycle, ch. cciv. 7. To entertain, without expense to the guest; to pay the expense of an entertainment, food, or drink (especially the last) for, as a compliment, or as a sign of goodwill or friendline . 8. To look upon or consider. "The Court of Rome treats it as the immediate sug gestion of Hell-open to no forgivene ."-De Quincey: Military Nun, sec. v., p. 11. *9. To entreat, to beseech, to solicit. B. Intransitive: 1. To discu , to discourse; to make discu ion or discourse of. (Generally followed by of . ) "Now wol I speke of others false and grete A word or two, as olde bookes trete ." (2) Treasury Department of Great Britain and Ireland: The duties of this department are entrusted to a board of commi ioners entitled Lords of the Treasury. The commi ioners are five in number. The First Lord of the Treasury is, as a rule, the Prime Minister, or head of the government; to negotiate. ment. He must be a member of one of the Houses of Parliament. As Prime Minister he has an extensive patronage, civil, legal, and ecclesiastical, appoints the chief officers of state, and regulates the various departments under the crown. The office is frequently combined with another in the ministry: thus, the First Lord at times holds the office of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The virtual head of the Treasury is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with which office that of First Lord is sometimes united. He must be a member of the House of Commons, and exercises complete control over the expenditure of the different branches of boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, Chaucer: C. Т. , 12,493. 2. To discu terms of accommodation or agree "He was now not only willing, but impatient to treat ." -Macaulay : Hist . Eng . , ch. xvii. 3. To come to terms of accommodation; to agree. 4. To make gratuitous entertainment; to pay for food, drink, or entertainments for another or others. [TREATING, C. 2.] To treat with : To negotiate with; to propose and receive terms for adjusting differences.