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单词 treaty
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treaty

English

WOTD – 6 February 2022

Etymology

The “Waitangi sheet”, one of nine documents which make up the Treaty of Waitangi (sense 2.2), regarded as the founding document of New Zealand. This sheet was the first to be signed by the consul for the British Crown and Māori chiefs at Waitangi on 6 February 1840.

The noun is derived from Middle English trete, trety (“bargaining, negotiation; discussion; conference, meeting; entreaty, persuasion; agreement, contract, covenant; arrangement, settlement; agreement between two rulers, states, etc.; written work on a particular subject, treatise; subdivision of a written work, section”) [and other forms],[1] from Anglo-Norman treté, traité, treaté, and Old French traité, traitié [and other forms] (modern French traité (“agreement between two rulers, states, etc.; treatise”)); traité or traitié is:[2]

  • a noun use of the past participle of traiter (“to treat; to deal with, handle”), from Latin tractāre, the present active infinitive of tractō (“to drag, haul, tug; to handle, manage; to debate, discuss; to exercise, practise; to perform, transact”), from trahō (“to drag, pull”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to drag, pull (?)”), a variant of *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull; to run”)) + -tō (frequentative suffix); and
  • also from Latin tractātum (“written work on a particular subject, treatise”), from Latin tractātus (“dragged, hauled, tugged; handled, managed; exercised, practised; performed, transacted”), the perfect passive participle of tractō (see above).

The verb is derived from the noun.[2]

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɹiːti/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɹiti/, /-ɾi/
  • Audio (GA)(file)
  • (Ireland) IPA(key): /ˈtɹiːti/, /ˈtɹiːəti/
  • Rhymes: -iːti
  • Hyphenation: trea‧ty

Noun

treaty (countable and uncountable, plural treaties)

  1. (countable, international law) A formal binding agreement concluded by subjects of international law, namely, states and international organizations; a convention, a pact.
    to sign a peace treaty
    to write up a treaty touching climate change
    • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, OCLC 1086746628, page 47:
      [T]he Duke of Britaine hauing beene an Hoſte, and a kind of Parent or Foſter-father to the King, in his tenderneſſe of age, and vveakneſſe of fortune, did looke for at this time from King Henry (the renovvned King of England) rather braue Troupes for his Succours, then a vaine Treatie of Peace.
    • 1724, [Gilbert] Burnet, “Book I. A Summary Recapitulation of the State of Affairs in Scotland, both in Church and State; […]”, in [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], editor, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume I, London: […] Thomas Ward […], OCLC 863504080, page 15:
      Soon after his [James VI and I's] coming to the Crown of England he entered into ſecret treaties with Spain, in order to the forcing the States to a peace: […]
    • 1776 March 9, Adam Smith, “Of the Principle of the Commercial, or Mercantile System”, in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. […], volume II, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], OCLC 762139, book IV (Of Systems of Political Oeconomy), page 29:
      Exportation was encouraged ſometimes by dravvbacks, ſometimes by bounties, ſometimes by advantageous treaties of commerce with foreign ſtates, and ſometimes by eſtabliſhment of colonies in diſtant countries.
  2. (archaic)
    1. (uncountable) Chiefly in in treaty: discussions or negotiations in order to reach an agreement.
      • 1680 May 10 (Gregorian calendar)​, John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 30 April 1680]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], volume I, 2nd edition, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, OCLC 976971842, page 519:
        To a meeting of the executors of late Viscsse Mordaunt's estate, to consider of the sale of Parsons Greene; being in treaty with Mr. Loftus, and to settle the halfe yeare's account.
    2. (countable) Chiefly in private treaty: an agreement or settlement reached following negotiations; a compact, a contract, a covenant.
  3. (obsolete)
    1. (uncountable) The manner or process of treating someone or something; treatment; also, the manner in which someone or something acts or behaves; behaviour.
      • 1629 (first performance), B[en] Jonson, The Nevv Inne. Or, The Light Heart. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Thomas Alchorne, […], published 1631, OCLC 913380815, Act I, scene iii:
        Hoſ[t]. They call me Good-ſtock. / Lov[el]. Sir, and you confeſſe it, / Both i'your language, treaty, and your bearing.
    2. (uncountable) The addressing or consideration of a subject; discussion, treatment.
    3. (countable) A formal, systematic discourse on some subject; a treatise.
      • 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Second Cause of Popular Errors; the Erroneous Disposition of the People”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203, 1st book, page 7:
        And though Galen doth ſometime nibble at Moſes, and beſide the Apoſtate Chriſtian, ſome Heathens have queſtioned his Philoſophicall part or treaty of the Creation: Yet is there ſurely no reaſonable Pagan, that will not admire the rationall and well grounded precepts of Chriſt; […]
      • 1724, [Gilbert] Burnet, “Book II. Of the First Twelve Years of the Reign of King Charles II. from the Year 1660 to the Year 1673.”, in [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], editor, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume I, London: […] Thomas Ward […], OCLC 863504080, page 326:
        The Miniſters in Holland did upon this occaſion ſhew a very particular violence. In their ſermons, and in ſome printed treaties, they charged the Judges with corruption, who had carried the ſentence no farther than to baniſhment: And compared the fate of the De Wits to Haman’s.
    4. (countable) An act of beseeeching or entreating; an entreaty, a plea, a request.
      • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene xi], page 356, column 1:
        Now I must / To the young man ſend humble Treaties, dodge / And palter in the ſhifts of lovvnes, vvho / VVith halfe the bulke o' th' vvorld plaid as I pleas'd, / Making, and marring Fortunes.

Coordinate terms

  • concordat

Derived terms

  • treaty battleship
  • treatyless
  • treatymaker
  • treatymaking
  • Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance
  • entreat
  • entreating
  • entreatingly
  • entreative
  • entreatment
  • entreaty
  • tractate
  • trait
  • treat
  • treatable
  • treatableness
  • treatably
  • treatise
  • treatment

Translations

agreement or settlement reached following negotiations — see compact,‎ contract,‎ covenant

See also

  • protocol
  • exchange of letters
  • exchange of notes

Verb

treaty (third-person singular simple present treaties, present participle treatying, simple past and past participle treatied)

  1. (transitive) To get into (a specific situation) through a treaty.
  2. (intransitive) To enter into a treaty.

Translations

References

  1. “trētẹ̄, n.(3)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. “treaty, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2021; “treaty, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Further reading

  • treaty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • treaty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • treaty at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • attery, yatter
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