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treatment|ˈtriːtmənt|
Also 6 trait-, Sc. treit-.
[f. treat v. + -ment. Cf. F. traitement (1255 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. Conduct, behaviour; action or behaviour towards a person, etc.; usage. (Const. of the person, etc. who is the object of the action.)
c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) iv. 46 Sic treitment is a trane To cleive thair quaver caice. 1585Queen Elizabeth in Four C. Eng. Lett. (1880) 29 My ambassador writes so muche of your honorable traitment of him. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §49 This kind of Treatment was so ill suited to the Duke's great Spirit. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. 38 The generous Treatment the Captain gave me, I can never enough remember. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 85 Had Luther been himself a prince, he could not have desired better treatment. 1907Verney Mem. I. 280 Edmund complains of the treatment of the army by the treasurer.
2. Entertainment, feasting; an entertainment, banquet (= treat n.1 4). Obs. exc. dial.
a1656Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 437 As to the treatments of the guests, sometimes 1000, otherwhiles 1500 tables were most richly spread. 1715tr. C'tess D'Anois' Wks. 452 He gave her Treatments, with enchanted Balls, and Comedies every Evening. 1725Pope Odyss. xiv. 71 Accept such treatment as a swain affords.
3. Management in the application of remedies; medical or surgical application or service.
1744Berkeley Siris §95 Many are even rendered incurable by the treatment of inconsiderate physicians. 1781Med. Jrnl. Feb. 98 The third part..relates to the pathology and treatment of disorders of the nerves. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XI. 352/1 If this treatment prove very disagreeable to the patient. 1863Aitken Pract. Med. (1866) II. 65 Treatment is chiefly conducted by diet and by medicines. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 380 Arsenic has long been used..as a remedy in the treatment of cutaneous diseases.
4. Subjection to the action of a chemical agent.
1828Webster s.v., The treatment of substances in chimical experiments.
5. a. Action or manner of dealing with something in literature or art; literary or artistic handling, esp. in reference to style.
1856Sat. Rev. II. 322 The mode of treatment adopted by the Rouman balladists. 1879H. Phillips Notes Coins 8 The boldness of design and power displayed in the treatment of their subjects. 1889Parry in Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 20/2 The last movement [of Mozart's ‘Jupiter’ Symphony], with its elaborate fugal treatment, has a vigorous austerity.
b. Cinemat. A preparatory version of a screenplay, including descriptions of sets and of the camerawork required.
1928L. North Parasites i. 33 We always make treatments of our stories—it's a sort of synopsis suggestin' what to use an' what to put in the discard. 1938A. Huxley Let. 18 Nov. (1969) 437 I've done a fair amount of work: a ‘treatment’, as they call it in the jargon of the films, of the life of Mme Curie for Garbo. 1959Halas & Manvell Technique Film Animation 342 Treatment, preliminary stage to writing script. Assembling ideas and situations for the film in hand. 1981L. Deighton XPD xxix. 240 We asked the FO to request a copy of the treatment... They would have got a copy of the script too.
c. the full treatment, the most elaborate manner of dealing with a subject, ‘the works’, esp. in phr. to give (or get) the full treatment. Also (often less emphatically) without full. colloq.
1950E. Hemingway Across River xxiv. 170 We'll give breakfast the full treatment. 1958Sunday Express 9 Nov. 17/4 In No Concern of Mine it gets the full treatment in a first act which is brilliantly contrived. 1959Listener 4 June 999/2 This programme was admirably free from the piety or boost which seems to be unavoidable when some celebrities are given the treatment. 1967Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 25 June (1970) 539 She seemed impressed with the kitchen when we took her through. Betty gave her the full treatment about the washer and dryer and disposal. 1973R. Hill Ruling Passion i. iii. 26 I'm really getting the treatment, thought Pascoe. What does he expect from me?
6. Discussion of terms of settlement; negotiation. rare.
1828Sir W. Napier Penins. War iii. i. (Rtldg.) I. 116 The stipulations of a treatment between the juntas.
7. (rendering F. traitement, sense 5 in Littré.) Salary, emolument. nonce-use.
1852Fraser's Mag. XLV. 170 The Professorship.. is a very desirable appointment... Its ‘annual treatments’ (to borrow a delicate Gallicism) amount to four hundred a-year.
8. attrib., as treatment plant, treatment room, treatment tank.
1963A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 114 These were the trucks which transport the ore from the mine to the treatment plant. 1975Petroleum Rev. XXIX. 315/1 A treatment plant for the removal of impurities.
1961I. Fleming Thunderball iv. 43 It was a white cubicle treatment-room like all the others. 1977J. A. Kotarba in Douglas & Johnson Existential Sociol. ix. 259 These conversations occurred in the waiting room, double occupance treatment rooms..and occasionally over coffee. 1900Westm. Gaz. 2 May 9/3 Four extra cyanide treatment tanks [for gold ore]. |