Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TREAT-MENT
TREAT-MENT, n. [Fr. traitement.]
- Management; manipulation; manner of mixing or combining, of decomposing and the like; as, the treatment of substances in chimical experiments.
- Usage; manner of using; good or bad behavior toward. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
- Manner of applying remedies to cure; mode or course pursued to check and destroy; as, the treatment of a disease.
- Manner of applying remedies to; as, the treatment of a patient.
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