tract¹ /trakt/

1. A stretch or extent of space or time
2. A region, area
3. A region of the body occupied by a particular system (eg the digestive tract)
4. A trace, track (Shakespeare, Spenser)
5. (also tractˈus) a psalm sung in the Mass in Lent instead of the Alleluia (perh as drawn out, perh as sung at a stretch without answers)

To trace, track

tract² /trakt/

1. A tractate
2. A pamphlet or leaflet, esp political or religious

tractāˈrian noun

A writer of tracts, esp (with cap) of the Tracts for the Times (Oxford, 1833–41), namely Pusey, Newman, Keble, Hurrell Froude, etc

Of or relating to a tractarian or the Tractarian

Tractārˈianism noun

The system of religious opinion promulgated in these, its main aim being to assert the authority and dignity of the Anglican Church, the Oxford Movement

tractˈate noun

A treatise, a tract

tractāˈtor noun

A tractarian

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