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Quotation dates: 1632
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Tractall, adj. [L. tractu-.] Drawn-out, intended to take up a lot of time. — 1632 Lithgow Trav. iii 82.
Such was my plot, I did inuite him to the wine, where after tractall discourses, and deepe draughts of leatick, reason failing, sleepe ouercame his sences
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