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# treatise

«treatise» in Mova's school dictionary: **A long, serious piece of writing that explains a subject…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (treatises)

### meaning for a pupil

A long, serious piece of writing that explains a subject in detail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treatise/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old books a learned man writes a treatise on a subject such as owls or the stars.

### examples

- He wrote a treatise on the habits of birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treatise/#x1)
- The scholar's treatise took him ten years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treatise/#x2)
- The school library has a treatise on the stars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treatise/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «treatise» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treatise/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.