Word Finder - treat

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An entertainment, outing, food, drink, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others.

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Here are some healthy Halloween treats for ghouls and witches of all ages.

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An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure.

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It was such a treat to see her back in action on the London stage.

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A snack food item designed to be given to pets.

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I lured the cat into her carrier by throwing a couple of treats in there.

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A parley or discussion of terms; a negotiation.

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An entreaty.

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To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).

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To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.

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Cicero's writing treats mainly of old age and personal duty.

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To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking.

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The article treated feminism as a quintessentially modern movement.

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To entreat or beseech (someone).

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Only let my family live, I treat thee.

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To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way.

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She was tempted to treat the whole affair as a joke.

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To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to; to pay for as celebration or reward.

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I treated my son to some popcorn in the interval.

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To commit the offence of providing food, drink, entertainment or provision to corruptly influence a voter.

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To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to.

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They treated me for malaria.

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To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in mind.

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He treated the substance with sulphuric acid.

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To provide something special and pleasant.

Don't treat me that way, Alex.

Treat them with respect and take care of them.

Is that the way to treat my friends?

We can't treat each other this way, Carmen.

By watching them, she learned to treat her pupil as nearly as possible like an ordinary child.

They will treat you like a god.

Will you treat them with the same temporary tolerance?

While you are under my roof, you will treat me with respect.

I'll treat you well, as long as you remain loyal.

Lori was a good looking woman and there were plenty of men who would whisk her away if Josh didn't treat her right.

The reputation of his learning led Majorianus to treat him with the greatest respect.

At the opening of 1354 he was sent with the cardinal of Boulogne, Pierre I., duke of Bourbon, and Jean VI., count of Vendome, to Mantes to treat with Charles the Bad, king of Navarre, who had caused the constable, Charles of Spain, to be assassinated, and from this time dates his connexion with this king.

James pretended to treat, and in the midst of the negotiations fled to France.

This method will allow us to treat the entire world as a controlled experiment in retrospect.

We've gotta treat as many people as we can who are suffering from radiation poisoning.

More than likely she was taking them out for a morning treat.

The first book, of fourteen short chapters, is concerned with the general properties of the globe; the remaining six books treat in considerable detail of the countries of Europe and of the other continents.

Treat?ng this as a vote of want of confidence Aberdeen at once res'gned office, and the queen bestowed upon him the order of the Garter.

This section includes a brief history of the subject, and proceeds to treat of the principles underlying the structure and interrelations of organic compounds.

If any power is absent, we treat it as present, but with coefficient o.

No canon of literary criticism can treat as valuable external evidence an attestation which first appears so many centuries after the supposed date of the poems.

A treat for the taste buds and an entertaining night on the town, this restaurant is sure to become a fast favorite as you delight in rolling up your sleeves and demonstrating your culinary skills.

Cobalt occurs in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, and efforts have been made in the former state to treat the ore, the metal having a high commercial value; but the market is small, and no attempt has been made up to 1907 to produce it on any large scale.

The traditions of the Ephraimite Joshua and of Saul the first king of (north) Israel virtually treat Judah as part of Israel and are related to the underlying representations in (a).

Other canons treat of intercourse with heretics, admission of penitent heretics, baptism, fasts, Lent, angel-worship (forbidden as idolatrous) and the canonical books, from which the Apocrypha and Revelation are wanting.

It was also in accord with the desire of the Transvaal Boers to obtain a seaport, a desire which had led them as early as 1860 to treat with the Zulus for the possession of St Lucia Bay.

His principal works (1 579, 1 599) treat of Gaulish and French antiquities, of the dignities and magistrates of France, of the origin of the French language and poetry, of the liberties of the Gallican church, &c. A collected edition was published in 1610.

Claude (c. 1500-1567), baron of Chateauneuf-sur-Cher, Sebastien's brother, was a secretary of finance; he had charge of negotiations with England in 1555 and 1559, and was several times commissioned to treat with the Huguenots in the king's name.

But on the whole the false prophets deserve that name, not for their conscious impostures, but because they were content to handle religious formulas, which they had learned by rote, as if they were intuitive principles, the fruit of direct spiritual experience, to enforce a conventional morality, shutting their eyes to glaring national sins, after the manner of professional orthodoxy, and, in brief, to treat the religious status quo as if it could be accepted without question as fully embodying the unchanging principles of all religion.

If x denotes the potential energy of unit of mass of the substance, we may treat x as sensibly constant except within a distance e of the bounding surface of the fluid.

For example, the BCG vaccine used to treat bladder cancer.

There are a number of products available from your pharmacist to treat cystitis.

Targets for drugs designed to treat many human diseases will often be such human proteins.

This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

I was told a charming Moscow story today and must treat you to it.

To treat the actual forms of religion as expressions of our various human needs is a fruitful idea which deserves fuller development than it has yet received; but Feuerbach's treatment of it is fatally vitiated by his subjectivism.

He determined to treat prisoners captured from submarines, in view of their breaches of the laws of war, with more severity than ordinary prisoners; but the Germans retaliated harshly on the most noteworthy English prisoners in their hands, and Mr. Balfour, on succeeding Mr. Churchill, gave up this discrimination.

In the present article it is only possible to treat of the division of the Hexapoda into orders and sub-orders and of the relations of these orders to each other.

The following year Ranzani of Bologna, in his Elementi di zoologia - a very respectable compilation - came to treat of birds, and then followed to some extent the plan of De Blainville and Merrem (concerning which much more has to be said by and by), placing the Struthious birds in an Order by themselves.

These views he shared more or less with Vigors and Swainson, and to them attention will be immediately especially invited, while consideration of the scheme gradually developed from 1831 onward by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, and still not without its influence, is deferred until we come to treat of the rise and progress of what we may term the reformed school of ornithology.

This was the foundation of a more extensive work of which, from the influence it still exerts, it will be necessary to treat later at some length, and there will be no need now to enter much into details respecting the earlier performance.

He was one of a large number of German thinkers who during the latter half of the 19th century endeavoured to treat the mind as a mechanism.

He was endeavouring to treat with Alboin and the Lombards, and desired to assure himself of Venetian support.

Similarly the Greenland angekok is said to summon his torngak (which may be an ancestral ghost or an animal) by drumming; he is heard by the bystanders to carry on a conversation and obtain advice as to how to treat diseases, the prospects of good weather and other matters of importance.

Thus a lessee is under an implied obligation to treat the premises demised in a tenant-like or " husband-like " manner, and again, where in a lease by deed the word " demise " is used, the lessor probably covenants impliedly for his own title and for the quiet enjoyment of the premises by the lessee.

Affinities.-The position of the Nemertines in the animal kingdom is now looked upon as more isolated than was formerly thought, and recent writers have been inclined to treat them as a separate phylum.

In 1657 he was appointed ministerplenipotentiary to treat with the Swedes on the Narova river.

Here we shall treat the latter subjects in more detail, viewed from the standpoint of the chemist.

Not until the third act does the great Wagner arbitrate in the struggle between amateurishness and theatricality in the music, though at all points his epoch-making stagecraft asserts itself with a force that tempts us to treat the whole work as if it were on the Wagnerian plane of Tannhauser's account of his pilgrimage in the third act.

But so long as we treat Wagner like a prose philosopher, a librettist, a poet, a mere musician, or anything short of the complex and many-sided artist he really is, we shall find insuperable obstacles to understanding or enjoying his works.