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Tractate, a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject, may refer to:

Masekhet, an organizational element of Talmudic literature
Minor tractate, a group of essays on Jewish religious laws
Treatise, a formal and systematic written discourse on some subject

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-A '''tractate''' is a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject; the word derives from the Latin ''tractatus'', meaning [[treatise]].<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Allen|editor1-first=R.E.|title=Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English|date=1990|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0-19-861243-5|page=1293|edition=8th}}</ref>
+'''Tractate''', a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject, may refer to:
+* [[Masekhet]], an organizational element of Talmudic literature
-One example of its use is in citing a section of the [[Talmud]], when the term ''[[masekhet]]'' ({{Script/Hebrew|מסכת}}) is used in conjunction with the name of the subject, for example, [[Berakhot (Talmud)|Masekhet Berakhoth]], which is relevant to agriculture and blessings.<ref name=Birnbaum373>{{cite book|title=A Book of Jewish Concepts|last=Birnbaum|first=Philip|chapter=Tractates|year=1975|publisher=Hebrew Publishing Company|location=New York, NY|isbn=088482876X|page=[https://archive.org/details/bookofjewishconc00birn/page/373 373]|chapter-url-access=registration|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/bookofjewishconc00birn/page/373}}</ref>
+* [[Minor tractate]], a group of essays on Jewish religious laws
+* [[Treatise]], a formal and systematic written discourse on some subject
+== See also ==
-Two further examples are the 1670 and '76 ''[[Tractatus Theologico-Politicus]]'' by [[Baruch Spinoza]], and the 1921 ''[[Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus]]'' by [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]].
-==See also==
-* {{look from}}
-* [[Minor tractate]]
 * [[Tract (disambiguation)]]
 * [[Tractatus (disambiguation)]]
-* [[Treatise]]
-==References==
-{{reflist}}
+{{disambig}}
-[[Category:Philosophical literature]]
-[[Category:Religious literature]]
-[[Category:Treatises|*]]