Epistle vs Treatise - What's the difference?
epistle | treatise |
A letter, or a literary composition in the form of a letter.
* 1748 — (David Hume), , Section III, § 5.
(Christianity) One of the letters included as a book of the New Testament.
* 1956 — Werner Keller (translated by William Neil), The Bible as History , revised English edition, Chapter 41, page 358
(obsolete) To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.
A formal, usually lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject.
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*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps?? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic??”
*2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
*:And if someone wants to know how to make objections to actual craftsmen themselves on the subject of art in general or any particular art, there are published treatises available, as you know.
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As nouns the difference between epistle and treatise
is that epistle is a letter, or a literary composition in the form of a letter while treatise is a formal, usually lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject.As a verb epistle
is (obsolete) to write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.epistle
English
(wikipedia epistle)Noun
(en noun)- he may be hurried from this plan by the vehemence of thought, as in an ode, or drop it carlessly, as in an epistle or essay
- Even last century scholars had begun to search for the cities in Asia Minor whose names have become so familiar to the Chistian world through the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles of St. Paul.
Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
(epistl)- (Milton)
treatise
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(en noun)Sarah Glaz
Ode to Prime Numbers, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}
