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pertractio

pertractio [CL pertrahere+-tio] 1 (act of) tracing or drawing (a line). figura dicitur quantum ad linee ~onem Sacrob. AN 1 p. 3. 2 treatment of a subject, consideration, detailed study, careful examination. omnes ‥ cause suos habent pertractacionum [v. l. pertraccionum] modos (Leg. Hen. 57. 8b) GAS 577; ~o istius particularis magis fiet in tractatu ‘de raro et denso’ Bacon III 213.

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