Definition for TREAT-MENT

TREAT-MENT, n. [Fr. traitement.]

  1. Management; manipulation; manner of mixing or combining, of decomposing and the like; as, the treatment of substances in chimical experiments.
  2. Usage; manner of using; good or bad behavior toward. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
  3. Manner of applying remedies to cure; mode or course pursued to check and destroy; as, the treatment of a disease.
  4. Manner of applying remedies to; as, the treatment of a patient.

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