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Definition of Tract

Tract A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion. Something drawn out or extended; expanse. A region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent; an area; as, an unexplored tract of sea. Traits; features; lineaments. The footprint of a wild beast. Track; trace. Treatment; exposition. Continuity or extension of anything; as, the tract of speech. Continued or protracted duration; length; extent. Verses of Scripture sung at Mass, instead of the Alleluia, from Septuagesima Sunday till the Saturday befor Easter; -- so called because sung tractim, or without a break, by one voice, instead of by many as in the antiphons. To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact. Related Definitions: Alleluia, Also, An, Anything, Area, As, At, Beast, Because, Break, By, Called, Continued, Continuity, Discourse, Dissertation, Draw, Drawn, Duration, Easter, Especially, Expanse, Exposition, Extended, Extension, Extent, Footprint, From, Generally, In, Indefinite, Instead, Land, Length, Many, Mass, Of, On, One, Or, Out, Practical, Protracted, Quantity, Region, Religion, Saturday, Scripture, Sea, Septuagesima, Short, So, Something, Speech, Sunday, Sung, The, Till, To, Trace, Track, Tract, Treatise, Treatment, Voice, Water, Wild, Without, Written

Tract Quotations About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract. Tim LaHaye If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. Elizabeth Bowen A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract. Joseph Lancaster War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. Thomas Hobbes The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood. Junipero Serra

Tract Translations tract in German is Teil, Gebiet tract in Italian is territorio tract in Latin is tractus

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