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The noun is derived from Middle Englishtrete, trety(“bargaining, negotiation; discussion; conference, meeting; entreaty, persuasion; agreement, contract, covenant; arrangement, settlement; agreement between two rulers, states, etc.; written work on a particular subject, treatise; subdivision of a written work, section”),[1] from Anglo-Normantreté, traité, treaté, and Old Frenchtraité, traitié (modern Frenchtraité(“agreement between two rulers, states, etc.; treatise”)); traité or traitié is:[2]
also from Latintractātum(“written work on a particular subject, treatise”), from Latintractātus(“dragged, hauled, tugged; handled, managed; exercised, practised; performed, transacted”), the perfectpassiveparticiple of tractō (see above).
he Duke of Britaine hauing beene an Hoſte, and a kind of Parent or Foſter-father to the King, in his tenderneſſe of age, and vveakneſſe of fortune, did looke for at this time from King Henry (the renovvned King of England) rather braue Troupes for his Succours, then a vaine Treatie of Peace.
a.1716 (date written), Burnet, “Book I. A Summary Recapitulation of the State of Affairs in Scotland, both in Church and State;”, in , editor, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time., volume I, London: Thomas Ward, published 1724, →OCLC, page 15:
Soon after his [James VI and I's] coming to the Crown of England he entered into ſecret treaties with Spain, in order to the forcing the States to a peace: […]
Exportation was encouraged ſometimes by dravvbacks, ſometimes by bounties, ſometimes by advantageous treaties of commerce with foreign ſtates, and ſometimes by eſtabliſhment of colonies in diſtant countries.
To a meeting of the executors of late Viscsse Mordaunt's estate, to consider of the sale of Parsons Greene; being in treaty with Mr. Loftus, and to settle the halfe yeare's account.
1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Second Cause of Popular Errors; the Erroneous Disposition of the People”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica:, 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins,, →OCLC, 1st book, page 7:
And though Galen doth ſometime nibble at Moſes, and beſide the Apoſtate Chriſtian, ſome Heathens have queſtioned his Philoſophicall part or treaty of the Creation: Yet is there ſurely no reaſonable Pagan, that will not admire the rationall and well grounded precepts of Chriſt; […]
a.1716 (date written), Burnet, “Book II. Of the First Twelve Years of the Reign of King Charles II. from the Year 1660 to the Year 1673.”, in , editor, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time., volume I, London: Thomas Ward, published 1724, →OCLC, page 326:
The Miniſters in Holland did upon this occaſion ſhew a very particular violence. In their ſermons, and in ſome printed treaties, they charged the Judges with corruption, who had carried the ſentence no farther than to baniſhment: And compared the fate of the De Wits to Haman’s.
Now I must / To the young man ſend humble Treaties, dodge / And palter in the ſhifts of lovvnes, vvho / VVith halfe the bulke o' th' vvorld plaid as I pleas'd, / Making, and marring Fortunes.