Definition of Tract

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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.

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Tract Quotations

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

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

About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract.
Tim LaHaye

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

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.
Mary Ann Mobley

I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
Taliesin

Tract Translations

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

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