tractate
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AT 3AM, a thousand young men are all poring over the same page in the Babylonian Talmud tractate of Kiddushin, which deals with definitions of matrimony in ancient rabbinical law.
From Economist
It is further divided into 63 parts, or tractates, which are broken down into 517 chapters.
From BBC
Ten months later Seneca wrote his tractate on Clemency.
From Project Gutenberg
If Mr. Murray does not sell ten or twenty thousand copies of this amusing tractate, we shall be greatly deceived.
From Project Gutenberg
The two following poems—somewhat out of character, so to say, with Crashaw—were probably prepared for a tractate, which it has been our good fortune to hap on in the Bodleian.
From Project Gutenberg
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