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Treting, vbl. n. Also: tretyng, treiting, tretting, treitting, -yng, treating, treatting(e, treeting, traitting, traicting. [Late ME and e.m.E. tretyng (c1440), treatynge (1525).]

1. Discussion, negotiation. Also pl. (Tret(e v. 1.)(a) 1375 Barb. ix 294.
He that wald hald were ne mar Na bargane with the nobile king Come syne his man with gud treting 1375 Barb. xiv 8.
Tretyng 1484 Misc. Spald. C. V 28.
Ambaxiatouris … past in England for the tretting and concluding of pece 1528 Prot. Bk. J. Brydin No. 156.
For the treitting and completting of the quhilk mariage [etc.] 1528 Prot. Bk. J. Brydin No. 156.
Treiting 1535 Acts II 349/2.
That my lord chancellar … sitt owklie for commonyng and treting of materis 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 23.
Considder how mony … honest meanys ȝe haif socht … to caus the king be knawlegeit … And how unproffittabill hes bene ȝour honestie in treating 1571 Cal. Sc. P. III 663.
Sum commissioneris to meit … for treeting of quyetness, as thairby your grace's godlie intentioun may be … manifest 1600-1610 Melvill 556.
That nothing wes to be done in this parliament but chuseing of commissioneris to treat of the unioune and report. We answerit that commounly as thingis wer dressit … by the conferrence and treiting, they wer … sua concludit 1637 Ancram & Loth. Corr. I 90.
This was soe farre from his first offer, that I would none of it. Soe all treating was given vp(b) 1618 Dunbar Social Life II 23.
This same fellow being sent to the King of Denmark for traitting for ane frie passaig through his straitspl. 1566 Inverness Rec. I 144.
Yit presupponand be gude tretingis brotherlie admonitioun haiffand respect to thair ayth thai suld abstene thairfra 1639 Spalding I 216.
No meitinges, treattinges, consultationis, or convocatioun of any of his Majesteis leiges

2. The result of treating or discoursing on a subject; a work or treatise. (Tret(e v. 2.) Cf. Tretis(e n. 4. c1420 Ratis R. 1810.
Now is endyt this matere The quhilk is Ratis raving cald … To gret God be the lovynge … And tyll His blis his saul mote bringe, That trawall tuk of this treting

3. Treatment, behaviour towards a person, etc.(a) 1548 Corr. M. Lorraine 242.
This realm is pwyr … All greit men in this realm has … folkis to sarve tham in thair awn bowndis but ony mone bot allanerly gud tretyng 1549 Compl. 74/25.
Al the gude treittyng that Scottis men gettis in Ingland changis in ane vile seruitude 1560 Cal. Sc. P. I 352.
[So many … difficulties have been made … I know it has been hurtful to us, the] treating [doth stay many noblemen, who were … determined to join us](b) 1588 King Cat. 36.
Irrewerent traicting of the name of God

b. Treatment of (a wound). (Cf. Tret(e v. 8.) 1568 Skeyne Descr. Pest 40.
Efter incisioun be maid, detful tretting of the samin consistis in curatiue materiallis