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Tract   /trækt/   Listen
noun
Tract  n.  A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion. "The church clergy at that time writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared."
Tracts for the Times. See Tractarian.



Tract  n.  
1.
Something drawn out or extended; expanse. "The deep tract of hell."
2.
A region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent; an area; as, an unexplored tract of sea. "A very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth."
3.
Traits; features; lineaments. (Obs.) "The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness."
4.
The footprint of a wild beast. (Obs.)
5.
Track; trace. (Obs.) "Efface all tract of its traduction." "But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forthon, Leaving no tract behind."
6.
Treatment; exposition. (Obs.)
7.
Continuity or extension of anything; as, the tract of speech. (Obs.)
8.
Continued or protracted duration; length; extent. "Improved by tract of time."
9.
(R. C. Ch.) 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.
Synonyms: Region; district; quarter; essay; treatise; dissertation.



verb
Tract  v. t.  To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact. (Obs.)






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"Tract" Quotes from Famous Books



... river, and upon the banks of that named the Nepean, there was known to be a tract of excellent land, as rich as any on the banks of the Hawkesbury which was then under cultivation, and where, at some future period, a settlement ...
— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 2 • David Collins

... not a country in the world so capable of bearing the expense of a war as America; not only because she was not in debt when she began, but because the country is young and capable of infinite improvement, and has an almost boundless tract of new lands in store; whereas England has got to her extent of age and growth, and has not unoccupied land or property in reserve. The one is like a young heir coming to a large improvable estate; the other like ...
— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine

... government to enter into negotiations for peace, which was settled on terms by no means favourable to Canadian interests. The question of the New Brunswick boundary might have been then adjusted on conditions which would have prevented at a later day the sacrifice of a large tract of territory in Maine which would be now of great value to the Dominion. The only advantage which accrued to the Canadians was a later convention which gave the people of the provinces full control of fisheries, ignorantly sacrificed by the ...
— Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 • John G. Bourinot

... point I desired to discuss," said the Commissioner. "What kind of country is this valley portion of (let us say, then) the Denny tract?" ...
— Whirligigs • O. Henry

... Klosterneuburgh, with its good wine: in the Bruhl, with its rugged steeps, its military memorials, and ruined castles; at the village of Bertholdsdorf, with its Turkish traditions; among the viny slopes of the Leopoldiberg, or the more distant and wilder tract of mingled rock and forest which encircle the Vale of Helen. Above all, there was Laxenberg,—an imperial pleasure-palace and garden, and a whole fairy-land in itself, peopled by the spirits of ancient knights and courtly dames. Some one of the Hapsburgs had built, many years ago, ...
— A Tramp's Wallet - stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France • William Duthie


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