transitive. To treat (something) as the subject for a written exposition or discussion; to expound on; (also) to take (something) as a topic…

transitive. To deal with or treat in speech, writing, or drama; to discuss; to portray; (formerly occasionally) spec. †to discuss in a deliberative…

transitive. To deal with (a subject) in speech or writing; to discuss. In modern use often with mixture of sense 10: to deal with in the way of…

intransitive. To deal with some matter in speech or writing; to discourse. (In quot. 1517 transferred of pictorial representation.) Const. of…

Of a speaker, writer, book, etc. intransitive. With of, upon. To deal with or give an account of a specified matter. Obsolete.

(transitive) to make a treatise on, to treat or write of.

To deal with in speech or writing; to discuss or discourse (transitive, or intransitive with of): = treat, v. 2a 2b.

transitive and intransitive. To treat (of) in narration.

transitive. To relate, consider (in narrative, etc.). rare.

transitive. To behave or act towards in a particular way, to treat.

To treat of or deal with, to discuss or comment on, (a subject) in speech or writing.