TRACTED
Verb
tracted
simple past tense and past participle of tract
Anagrams
• detract
Source: Wiktionary
TRACT
Tract, n. Etym: [Abbrev.fr. tractate.]
Definition: A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent;
a short treatise, especially on practical religion.
The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against
popery that ever appeared. Swift.
Tracts for the Times. See Tractarian.
Tract, n. Etym: [L. tractus a drawing, train, track, course, tract of
land, from trahere tractum, to draw. Senses 4 and 5 are perhaps due
to confusion with track. See Trace,v., and cf. Tratt.]
1. Something drawn out or extended; expanse. "The deep tract of
hell." Milton.
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 narrowtract of
earth. Addison.
3. Traits; features; lineaments. [Obs.]
The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a
great weakness. Bacon.
4. The footprint of a wild beast. [Obs.] Dryden.
5. Track; trace. [Obs.]
Efface all tract of its traduction. Sir T. Browne.
But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forthon, Leaving no tract
behind. Shak.
6. Treatment; exposition. [Obs.] Shak.
7. Continuity or extension of anything; as, the tract of speech.
[Obs.] Older.
8. Continued or protracted duration; length; extent. "Improved by
tract of time." Milton.
9. (R. C. Ch.)
Definition: 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.
Syn.
– Region; district; quarter; essay; treatise; dissertation.
Tract, v. t.
Definition: To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact. [Obs.]
Spenser. B. Jonson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition