Word Meanings - TREATY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

tractatus; cf. L. tractatus a handling, treatment, consultation, 1. The act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation. "By sly and wise treaty." Chaucer. He cast by treaty and by trains Her to persuade.

Additional info about word: TREATY

tractatus; cf. L. tractatus a handling, treatment, consultation, 1. The act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation. "By sly and wise treaty." Chaucer. He cast by treaty and by trains Her to persuade. Spenser. 2. An agreement so made; specifically, an agreement, league, or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners properly authorized, and solemnly ratified by the several sovereigns, or the supreme power of each state; an agreement between two or more independent states; as, a treaty of peace; a treaty of alliance. 3. A proposal tending to an agreement. Shak. 4. A treatise; a tract. Sir T. Browne.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TREATY)

• Agreement
• Contract
• compact
• bond
• concord
• concurrence
• conformity
• harmony
• unison
• consonance
• bargain
• covenant
• obligation
• undertaking
• treaty
• Alliance
• Compact
• cooperation
• union
• connection
• partnership
• league
• combination
• coalition
• confederation
• friendship
• relation
• relationship
• Confederacy
• Confederation
• association
• Convention
• Assemblage
• meeting
• gathering
• conference
• cabinet
• convocation
• congress
• session
• synod

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TREATY)

• Expand
• amplify
• dilate
• elongate
• reverse
• cancel
• abandon

Related words: (words related to TREATY)

• MEETER
  One who meets.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• CONFERENCE
  A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
• CONVENTIONALLY
  In a conventional manner.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• ASSOCIATION
  1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is
• UNISONANCE
  Accordance of sounds; unison.
• CONGRESSIVE
  Encountering, or coming together. Sir T. Browne.
• ASSOCIATIONIST
  One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
• CONVENTIONAL
  1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale. 2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by
• CONCURRENCE
  1. The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. Locke. 2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion;
• CONFEDERACY
  A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy. Syn. -- League; compact; alliance; association; union; combination; confederation. (more info) 1. A league or compact between
• BARGAINER
  One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.
• CONFEDERATION
  1. The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particulary of princes, nations, or states. The three princes enter into some strict league and confederation among themselves. Bacon. This was no less than a political
• UNIONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
• CONVENTIONALISM
  The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t. (more info) 1. That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• COALITIONIST
  One who joins or promotes a coalition; one who advocates coalition.
• CANCELLATE
  Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
• CONCORDANT
  Agreeing; correspondent; harmonious; consonant. Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves. Sir T. Browne
• DALLIANCE
  1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• REALLIANCE
  A renewed alliance.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• REUNION
  1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects. 2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• INCONFORMITY
  Want of conformity; nonconformity.