Shak.
2. Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as,
tractable measures. [Obs.] Holder.
—Tract"a*ble*ness, n. — Tract"a/bly, adv.
Trac*ta"ri*an (?), n. (Ch. of England) One of the writers of the Oxford
tracts, called "Tracts for the Times," issued during the period
1833-1841, in which series of papers the sacramental system and
authority of the Church, and the value of tradition, were brought into
prominence. Also, a member of the High Church party, holding generally
the principles of the Tractarian writers; a Puseyite.
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Trac*ta"ri*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to the Tractarians, or their
principles.
Trac*ta"ri*an*ism (?), n. (Ch. of England) The principles of the
Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts
for the Times."
Tract"ate (?), n. [L. tractatus a touching, handling, treatise. See
Tractable, and Tract a treatise, Treaty.] A treatise; a tract; an
essay.
Agreeing in substance with Augustin's, from whose fourteenth Tractate
on St. John the words are translated.
Hare.
Trac*ta"tion (?), n. [L. tractatio.] Treatment or handling of a
subject; discussion. [Obs.]
A full tractation of the points controverted.
Bp. Hall.
Trac*ta"tor (?), n. [L., a handler.] One who writes tracts; specif., a
Tractarian. [R.] C. Kingsley.
Tract"ile (?), a. [L. trahere, tractum, to draw.] Capable of being
drawn out in length; ductile. Bacon.
Trac*til"i*ty (?), n. The quality of being tractile; ductility. Derham.
Trac"tion (?), n. [L. trahere, tractum, to draw: cf. F. traction.] 1.
The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a
muscle.
2. Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive
power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a
boat by a tug.