rare. [f. TRACTATE (or L. tractātus) + -ule, dim. suffix, as in globule, granule, etc.] A small tractate or treatise.
1878. Academy, 25 May, 455/2. For completeness and grace of style Mr. [Austin] Dobson’s little essay [‘Note on some Foreign Forms of Verse’] is worthy to rank as a prose tractatule beside some of his own verse.
1892. Sat. Rev., 28 May, 636/1. The first [volume] contains a much more mixed multitude of tractatules.
1901. N. Smith, in Fortn. Rev., Oct., 403. The carnal man cannot help sighing for a tractate—a tractatule even of the tiniest—on English verse, from the Venerable One.
