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Treated

adjective

1.

Subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent. "Treated timbers resist rot" , "Treated fabrics resist wrinkling"

2.

Given medical care or treatment.

3.

Made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment. Synonyms: hardened, tempered, toughened. "Tempered glass"

Treat

verb

(past & past part. treated; pres. part. treating)

1.

Interact in a certain way. Synonyms: do by, handle. "Treat him with caution, please" , "Handle the press reporters gently"

2.

Subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition. Synonym: process. "Process hair" , "Treat the water so it can be drunk" , "Treat the lawn with chemicals" , "Treat an oil spill"

3.

Provide treatment for. Synonym: care for. "The nurses cared for the bomb victims" , "The patient must be treated right away or she will die" , "Treat the infection with antibiotics"

4.

Act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression. Synonyms: address, cover, deal, handle, plow. "The course covered all of Western Civilization" , "The new book treats the history of China"

5.

Provide with a gift or entertainment. "I like to treat myself to a day at a spa when I am depressed"

6.

Provide with choice or abundant food or drink. Synonym: regale. "She treated her houseguests with good food every night"

7.

Engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement.

8.

Regard or consider in a specific way.

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... the inter- columnar space vary considerably between temple and temple, or chamber and chamber, but sometimes—as in the first court at Medinet Habu—they vary in the same portico. We have thus far treated separately of each type; but when various types were associated in a single building, no fixed relative proportions were observed. In the hypostyle hall at Karnak, the campaniform columns support the nave, while the lotus-bud variety is relegated to the aisles (fig. 73). There are halls in ...

— Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt • Gaston Camille Charles Maspero

... impotent conclusion, and did not commend the support or even the respect of the Senate. Mr. Thurman, a member of the committee that reported it, made haste to announce that he had not approved it. He treated the proposition for suspension as a practical confession that the Tenure-of-office Act "is to be enforced when it will have no practical effect, and is not to be enforced when it would have practical effect." The chief defenders of the proposition to suspend the Act were ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... delivered over to Philip. They amounted to three thousand men. The consul went thence to Larissa, in order to hold a consultation on the general plan of operations; and on his way was met by ambassadors from Pieria and Metropolis, with the surrender of those cities. Philip treated the captured, particularly the Athamanians, with great kindness, in order that through them he might conciliate their countrymen; and having hence conceived hopes of getting Athamania into his possession, he first sent forward the prisoners to their respective states, and then marched his ...

— History of Rome, Vol III • Titus Livius

... are attached to the glebe. On the day of our arrival we saw three fugitive negroes brought back; they were slaves newly purchased. I dreaded having to witness one of those punishments which, wherever slavery prevails, destroys all the charm of a country life. Happily these blacks were treated with humanity. ...

— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt

... was ravished with her and required her of love. Now she knew him; so she brought him into the house and making him sit down, brought out a book and said to him, 'Look in this book, whilst I order my affair and return to thee.' So he looked into the book, and behold, it treated of the Divine prohibition against adultery and of the punishments that God hath prepared for those that do it. When he read this, his flesh quaked and he repented to God the Most High: then he called the woman and giving her the book, went away. ...

— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume IV • Anonymous

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