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† tracˈtator Obs.
[a. L. tractātor, agent-n. f. tractāre: see tract v.1 and -or 2 c.]
One who treats of a subject; the writer of a tractate.
a1638Mede Wks. (1672) 386 Justin Martyr, Theophilus Antiochenus, Irenæus, or it may be another small Tractator or two. 1686W. Hopkins tr. Ratramnus Dissert. ii. (1688) 25 Phil. Labbe numbers him among the Catholick Tractators, Radbert, Lanfranc, and Guitmund. 1725tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 17th C. I. v. 65 This Name of Treatise was given to it [sermon], because the Holy Scripture was explained in it; and it is upon that account that the Preachers were call'd Tractators.
b. spec. Any one of the writers of ‘Tracts for the Times’: see tract n.1 3 b.
1842Kingsley in Life (1877) I. 81 Talking of the Tractators—so you still like their tone! And so do I. 1844R. M. Beverley Ch. Eng. Examined Pref. (ed. 2) 12 The Oxford tractators..write for this one object, to bring Christians from the Scriptures into tradition. |