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tractaˈtorian, a. Ch. Hist. ? Obs.
[f. late L. tractātōri-us (f. prec.) + -an.]
In tractatorian or tractatory letter, late L. epistola tractatoria, a letter from a synod or council of bishops, so called from L. tractātus in the sense of a conference treating of sacred subjects. See Du Cange. Also ˈtractatory a. in same sense; n. a tractatory letter.
1672–5T. Comber Comp. Temple (1702) 510 St. Augustine, who excommunicated Primianus the Donatist, and sent his Tractatorian letter to all his fellow Bishops to avoid him. Ibid. 513 The Tractatorian Epistle, which the Bishops sent in the Name of the Church of Ptolemais to all her sister Churches. 1725tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 17th C. I. v. ii. 69 They call'd those Tractatory Letters, by which the Metropolitans invited the Bishops of their Province to Synods... The Excuses of the Bishops who could not come to the Synod were wrote at the Bottom of the Letter which was sent to them, which they call'd Tractory, or Tractatory. |