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Great Experiment may refer to: Canada: The Great Experiment, a Canadian educational television show The Great Experiment: Faith and Freedom in America
Great_Experiment
2023 Netflix limited series
elevated people of color to prominent positions and ranks?"; "The Great Experiment" [which didn’t happen in real-life England] allows us to reimagine
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
Queen_Charlotte:_A_Bridgerton_Story
Series of social psychology experiments
The Milgram Experiment is, in the early 1960s, a series of social psychology experiments that were conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram
Milgram_experiment
Canadian television series
Canada: The Great Experiment is an educational television show which was produced and broadcast by TVOntario in 1981–82. The series was narrated by Prime
Canada:_The_Great_Experiment
Scientific procedure performed to validate a hypothesis
An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments
Experiment
Residential House of Harvard College
with 150 Radcliffe students from the Quadrangle. Ten years later the experiment was taken to its logical conclusion, as the last all-male dorm, Straus
Cabot_House
Ban on alcohol from 1920 to 1933
Rose writes: Opponents of prohibition were fond of claiming that the Great Experiment had created a gangster element that had unleashed a "crime wave" on
Prohibition in the United States
Prohibition_in_the_United_States
British lawyer, politician and diplomat (1864–1958)
Cecil, A Great Experiment (London: Jonathan Cape, 1941), pp. 353-356. Egerton, p. 38. The memorandum is reprinted in Cecil, A Great Experiment, pp. 356-357
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
Robert_Cecil,_Viscount_Cecil_of_Chelwood
Book series published by Encyclopædia Britannica
Preface to the Treatise on the Vacuum New Experiments Concerning the Vacuum Account of the Great Experiment Concerning the Equilibrium of Fluids Treatises
Great Books of the Western World
Great_Books_of_the_Western_World
a list of historically important scientific experiments and observations demonstrating something of great scientific interest, typically in an elegant
List_of_experiments
1903 novel by Bram Stoker
Trelawny gathers the remaining inhabitants of the house to explain his Great Experiment. He describes how powerful Queen Tera was and explains that her spirit
The_Jewel_of_Seven_Stars
Series of human experiments in Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany conducted medical experiments on prisoners in its concentration camps mainly between 1942 and 1945. There were 15,754 documented victims
Nazi_human_experimentation
2012 tax cut in the US state of Kansas
history. The Kansas experiment has also been called the "Great Kansas Tax Cut Experiment", the "Red-state experiment", "the tax experiment in Kansas", and
Kansas_experiment
Long-term experiment measuring the flow of pitch
A pitch drop experiment is a long-term experiment which measures the flow of a piece of pitch over many years. "Pitch" is the name for any of a number
Pitch_drop_experiment
Experiments proving existence of atomic nuclei
The Rutherford scattering experiments were a landmark series of experiments by which scientists learned that every atom has a nucleus where all of its
Rutherford scattering experiments
Rutherford_scattering_experiments
Building complex in Port Louis, Mauritius
wages, providing a potentially massive source of cheap labour. The 'Great Experiment', as the indentured program came to be known as, called for these prospective
Aapravasi_Ghat
American novelist and short story writer (born 1960)
"Capricious Gardens" (First appeared in The Gettysburg Review, 1988) "Great Experiment" (First appeared in The New Yorker, 2008) "Fresh Complaint" (2017)
Jeffrey_Eugenides
British art historian (1936–1971)
1936 – 17 December 1971) was a British art historian whose book, The Great Experiment: Russian Art 1863–1922, broke new ground in promoting this branch of
Camilla_Gray
French polymath (1623–1662)
le vide [New experiments with the vacuum] (1647) Récit de la grande expérience de l'équilibre des liqueurs [Account of the great experiment on equilibrium
Blaise_Pascal
1932–1972 human experiment in Alabama, United States
Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male (informally referred to as the Tuskegee Experiment or Tuskegee Syphilis Study) was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972
Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
Science experiment on lightning and electricity
The kite experiment is a scientific experiment in which a kite with a pointed conductive wire attached to its apex is flown near thunder clouds to collect
Kite_experiment
Video game series
a penchant for throwing worlds into suns to sabotage the Ancients' Great Experiment, as his faulty programming views them as a threat to Terra. Sheltem
Might_and_Magic
Experiment to measure elementary electric charge
The oil drop experiment was performed by Robert A. Millikan and Harvey Fletcher in 1909 to measure the elementary electric charge (the charge of the electron)
Oil_drop_experiment
1915 painting by Kazimir Malevich
by Black Square, Black Cross, and Black Circle. Gray, Camilla. The Great Experiment: Russian Art, 1863–1922. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1962 Farthing,
Black_Cross_(painting)
Experiment to determine the validity of psychiatric diagnosis
The Rosenhan experiment or Thud experiment was a disputed study regarding the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. For the experiment, participants submitted
Rosenhan_experiment
German-American political scientist and journalist (born 1982)
Welfare State. Harvard University Press. 2019. ISBN 978-0674545465. The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure. Penguin
Yascha_Mounk
1995 book by Neil Postman
series of errors and corrections) "The American Experiment" (the story of America as a great experiment and as a center of continuous argument) "The Laws
The_End_of_Education
1887 investigation of the speed of light
The Michelson–Morley experiment was an attempt to measure the motion of the Earth relative to the luminiferous aether, a supposed medium permeating space
Michelson–Morley_experiment
Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796
Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 1729 – 17 November 1796), commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She came to power after a
Catherine_the_Great
First missionary woman of the AME (1764–1849)
Sense of Human Rights". The Women of Philadelphia. Philadelphia:The Great Experiment. April 3, 2012. Archived from the original on March 16, 2016. Retrieved
Sarah_Allen_(missionary)
1924 painting by Kazimir Malevich
Retrieved 15 January 2012. Néret, 93 Néret, 94 Gray, Camilla. The Great Experiment: Russian Art, 1863-1922. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1962 Farthing,
Black_Circle
1973 non-fiction book by Christopher Finch
Feature Animation Snow White: The First Feature Pinocchio Fantasia: The Great Experiment Dumbo and Bambi Interruptions and Innovations Later Animation Part
The_Art_of_Walt_Disney
Worldwide economic depression (1929–1939)
The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty,
Great_Depression
American brewery
(September 4, 2013). "Cincinnati's rise and fall as a brewery town Part 2: Great experiment ends, breweries try a comeback". wcpo.com. WCPO. Retrieved April 29
Burger_Brewing_Company
Book by Lauren Slater
Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century (W. W. Norton & Company, 2004, ISBN 0393050955), is a book by Lauren Slater
Opening_Skinner's_Box
American digital entertainment studio
[better source needed] In mid-2005, JibJab made a project called The Great Experiment which encouraged users to send their faces to JibJab to be featured
JibJab
2016 soundtrack album by Ramin Djawadi
The Great Wall: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the film of the same name. This music is composed by Ramin Djawadi and released
The_Great_Wall_(soundtrack)
Public holiday in Ukraine
Second Liberation is Inevitable • Сталкер Zone". 28 October 2016. 'The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global
Liberation_Day_(Ukraine)
1984 science fiction film directed by Stewart Raffill
The Philadelphia Experiment is a 1984 American science fiction film. It is directed by Stewart Raffill, stars Michael Paré, Bobby Di Cicco, Kene Holliday
The Philadelphia Experiment (film)
The_Philadelphia_Experiment_(film)
English author and social critic
Age of Moral Confusion, Carol Stream, IL: Navpress. —— (2001), The Great Experiment: Faith and Freedom in America, Carol Stream, IL: Navpress. —— (2003)
Os_Guinness
Long-distance intellectual community in early modern Europe and the Americas
doi:10.1016/0191-6599(91)90180-7 Hunter, Michael (November 2010), "The Great Experiment: The Royal Society", History Today, vol. 60, no. 11, pp. 34–40, retrieved
Republic_of_Letters
1944–1945 US medical experiment
Minnesota Starvation Experiment, also known as the Minnesota Semi-Starvation Experiment, the Minnesota Starvation-Recovery Experiment and the Starvation
Minnesota Starvation Experiment
Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment
20th-century Indian politician
recounted his experiences at the Bar. His other works include – A Great Experiment and G.V. Mavalankar Speeches and Writings. Jain, C. K. (1993). Women
Ganesh_Vasudev_Mavalankar
same type of information, our comprehension can increase. Another great experiment done with transfer appropriate processing was one by Michael E. Stiso
Transfer-appropriate processing
Transfer-appropriate_processing
Largest pyramid in the Giza Necropolis, Egypt
tools. In the experiment replicas of these were used to cut a block weighing about 2.5 tonnes (the average block size used for the Great Pyramid). It took
Great_Pyramid_of_Giza
American economist
UK, 2020. Porter, W.F., Erickson, J.D. and R.S. Whaley (Eds.), The Great Experiment in Conservation: Voices from the Adirondacks, Syracuse University Press
Jon_David_Erickson
Japanese aikido instructor (born 1937)
nights and I felt it was his wish that I should go. This country is a great experiment, a melting pot of people from many different cultural backgrounds living
Mitsugi_Saotome
1907 scientific study by Duncan MacDougall
The 21 grams experiment refers to a study published in 1907 by Duncan MacDougall, a physician from Haverhill, Massachusetts. MacDougall hypothesized that
21_grams_experiment
voiced by Dave Wittenberg. Angel (Experiment 624) is a pink female experiment who is Stitch's love interest with a great feminine resemblance to him. Stitch
List of Lilo & Stitch characters
List_of_Lilo_&_Stitch_characters
1856–1866 United States Army experiment
The United States Camel Corps was a mid-19th-century experiment by the United States Army in using camels as pack animals in the Southwestern United States
United_States_Camel_Corps
Fleet of truck-mounted weather radars
including Plains Elevated Convection at Night 2015 (PECAN), The Great Plains Irrigation Experiment 2018 (GRAINEX), Remote sensing of Electrification, Lighting
Doppler_on_Wheels
Isolating infants from normal language
Language deprivation experiments have been claimed to have been attempted at least four times through history, isolating infants from the normal use of
Language deprivation experiments
Language_deprivation_experiments
American baseball player and manager (1911–1984)
Publications. p. 196. ISBN 978-0486477350. Tygiel, Jules (1997). Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy. Oxford University Press. p. 148. ISBN 0195106202
Walter_Alston
American writer (born 1969)
became the writer of Sam Katz's history documentary, “Philadelphia: The Great Experiment,” which broadcasts regionally in installments on Philadelphia's ABC
Nathaniel_Popkin
Pseudoscientific test for extrasensory perception (ESP)
A ganzfeld experiment (from the German words for "entire" and "field") is an assessment used by parapsychologists that they contend can test for extrasensory
Ganzfeld_experiment
Austrian historian, diplomat and journalist (1894–1957)
work as an executive, supervisor, and diplomat for the UN. His book A Great Experiment in International Administration had a substantial influence on the
Egon_Ranshofen-Wertheimer
French novelist and writer (1873–1935)
p. 468. ISBN 1441119922. David-Fox, Michael (2012). Showcasing the great experiment: cultural diplomacy and western visitors to Soviet Union, 1921-1941
Henri_Barbusse
Collapse in behavior due to overcrowding
from a series of over-population experiments Calhoun conducted on brown rats between 1958 and 1962. In the experiments, Calhoun and his researchers created
Behavioral_sink
First white American baseball player to play in the Negro Leagues
Spring 2002 issue of Elysian Fields Quarterly. "Baseball's other 'great experiment': Eddie Klep and the integration of the Negro leagues", by Larry R
Eddie_Klep
Political activist (1922–2021)
Society: A rank-and-file pamphlet (1968) Education and Revolution: a great experiment in socialist education (1972) Class Size and the Relationship Between
Chanie_Rosenberg
Real estate investment trust in New York, United States
Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Rodriguez
United_Housing_Foundation
Fictional Lilo & Stitch character
templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. › Stitch, also known as Experiment 626 (pronounced "six-two-six"), is a fictional character from Disney's
Stitch_(Lilo_&_Stitch)
Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky
and annotated by Kenneth Lantz. "Introductory study: Dostoyevsky's Great Experiment" by Gary Saul Morson. ISBN 9780810115163. • A Writer's Diary Volume
A_Writer's_Diary
2024 video game
MachineGames experimented with strands for animal fur but limited them for certain animals like spiders and monkeys. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Indiana_Jones_and_the_Great_Circle
2006 novel by MT Anderson
technically a slave in the Gitney household and the subject of the great experiment. He is a very quiet person, and is very skilled in many areas including
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party
The_Astonishing_Life_of_Octavian_Nothing,_Traitor_to_the_Nation,_Volume_I:_The_Pox_Party
1976 novel by Ira Levin
New York, New York. Retrieved March 6, 2015. Books of The Times: Great Experiments in Living By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT. New York Times 10 Mar 1976:
The_Boys_from_Brazil_(novel)
Russian-French artist (1881–1962)
Camilla (1962). The Great Experiment: Russian Art 1863–1922. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 98. Gray, Camilla (1962). The Great Experiment: Russian Art 1863–1922
Natalia_Goncharova
Book by Ronald Wright
wrong. — A Short History of Progress, p 8 The second chapter, "The Great Experiment", continues the examination of Stone Age progress by looking at the
A_Short_History_of_Progress
Scientific study over long time period
experiments therefore contrast with nonexperimental long-term studies in which manipulation of the system studied is impossible (e.g. Jupiter's Great
Long-term_experiment
from the original on 2010-05-20. Tygiel, Jules (1983), Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy, New York: Oxford University Press
List of first black Major League Baseball players
List_of_first_black_Major_League_Baseball_players
Biological experiment on the peppered moth
Kettlewell's experiment was a biological experiment in the mid-1950s to study the evolutionary mechanism of industrial melanism in the peppered moth (Biston
Kettlewell's_experiment
Short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
and annotated by Kenneth Lantz. "Introductory study: Dostoyevsky's Great Experiment" by Gary Saul Morson. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 9780810115163
The_Peasant_Marey
1958–1962 Chinese socioeconomic campaign
original on 12 February 2024. Kwong, Julia (1979). "The Educational Experiment of the Great Leap Forward, 1958-1959: Its Inherent Contradictions". Comparative
Great_Leap_Forward
Canadian ice hockey player
original on 2016-12-04. Oliver, Greg (2017-04-11). Father Bauer and the Great Experiment: The Genesis of Canadian Olympic Hockey. ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-77090-999-1
Dan_D'Alvise
Type of fluid
Science Experiment". instructables.com. "Outrageous Ooze". Exploratorium. 7 March 2023. Rupp, Rebecca (1998). "Magic Mud and Other Great Experiments". The
Non-Newtonian_fluid
Canadian sports media personality (born 1943)
announced". Orillia Matters. Oliver, Greg (2017). Father Bauer and the Great Experiment: The Genesis of Canadian Olympic Hockey. Toronto, Ontario: ECW Press
Bill_Watters
Quantum physics thought experiment
Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment describes a family of thought experiments in quantum physics proposed by John Archibald Wheeler, with the most prominent
Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment
Wheeler's_delayed-choice_experiment
Bank
Green (1991). British Slave Emancipation: The Sugar Colonies and the Great Experiment, 1830-1865. Clarendon Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-19-820278-3. "Founding
Colonial_Bank_(West_Indies)
1962 psychological research study on religious experiences of psilocybin users
The Marsh Chapel Experiment, also called the "Good Friday Experiment", was an experiment conducted on Good Friday, April 20, 1962 at Boston University's
Marsh_Chapel_Experiment
American historian and author
Washington: The Wonder of the Age (Yale University Press, 2017) The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic The Last Best Hope of
John_Rhodehamel
NZ teacher, writer, educationalist
for adults, including books on education (Tales Out of School; The Great Experiment), plays, and an opera libretto. Her play Rose Lane (1936) won a British
Edith_Howes
English academic (1915–2003)
remained the post until 1980. He was appointed a CBE in 1979. The Great Experiment: An Introduction to the History of the American People (1955) The Anglo-American
Frank_Thistlethwaite
British anarchist
Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing, by Peter Eisenstadt. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2010
Thomas_Hastie_Bell
North American trade union
Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing. Cornell University Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-8014-5968-9
International Union of Elevator Constructors
International_Union_of_Elevator_Constructors
Governing body of ice hockey in Japan
2019-06-14. Shoichi Tomita. IIHF Oliver, Greg (2017). Father Bauer and the Great Experiment: The Genesis of Canadian Olympic Hockey. Toronto, Ontario: ECW Press
Japan_Ice_Hockey_Federation
Church in Styria, Austria
Mariatrost. Retrieved 2025-07-12. Oliver, Greg (2017). Father Bauer and the Great Experiment: The Genesis of Canadian Olympic Hockey. Toronto, Ontario: ECW Press
Mariatrost_Basilica
Junior judge in British and other judiciaries
A. (1992). British slave emancipation: the sugar colonies and the great experiment 1830 - 1865 (Reprinted ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-820278-3
Stipendiary_magistrate
President of the United States from 1861 to 1865
gleeful in pronouncing the American debacle as proof that the entire experiment in popular government had failed", according to Don H. Doyle. Union diplomats
Abraham_Lincoln
Canadian politician and businessman
heart attacks, I give them." Oliver, Greg (2017). Father Bauer and the Great Experiment: The Genesis of Canadian Olympic Hockey. Toronto, Ontario: ECW Press
Ian_David_Sinclair
develop Brazil's interior. The city was Brasília and it would see a great experiment in modernist architecture. Government buildings, churches and civic
Architecture_of_Brazil
American legal scholar and historian (born 1948)
of Legislative History". (1995). Arkansas Law Review. "Pursuing the Great Experiment: Reserved Powers in a Post–Ratification, Compound Republic". (1999)
Mark_R._Killenbeck
1790 demonstration of reflection of heat
Pictet's experiment is the demonstration of the reflection of heat and the apparent reflection of cold in a series of experiments performed in 1790 (reported
Pictet's_experiment
American foreign policy analyst
Presidential Diplomacy (Random House, 2007). online Talbott, Strobe. The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global
Strobe_Talbott
20th-century Italian-American architect and politician
Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Alfred_A._Lama
Global conflict (1939–1945)
international cooperation and prevent future conflicts, with the victorious great powers—China, France, the Soviet Union, the UK, and the US—becoming the
World_War_II
Man Blackadder Borgen Brilliant Creatures Building Big Canada: The Great Experiment Canada: A People's History Chances Are, The Science of Luck Check and
List of programs broadcast by TVO
List_of_programs_broadcast_by_TVO
1774 attempt to measure the Earth's average density
66778°N 4.09778°W / 56.66778; -4.09778 The Schiehallion experiment was an 18th-century experiment to determine the mean density of the Earth. Funded by
Schiehallion_experiment
Series of court hearings
2007-04-12. Retrieved 2009-04-15. Tygiel, Jules (1983). Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy. New York: Oxford University Press
Paul Robeson congressional hearings
Paul_Robeson_congressional_hearings
ist das Saarland by Ernest Bingen The Figurehead by John Halas The Great Experiment by V.R. Sarma The Romance of Transportation in Canada by Colin Low
1953_Cannes_Film_Festival
Sugar plantation in Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica
A. (1991). British Slave Emancipation: The Sugar Colonies and the Great Experiment, 1830-1865. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-19-820278-3
Albion_plantation
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Great Worrier; Great Chivalric
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Short form of Danish/Swedish Margareta, GRETA means "pearl."
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, pearl.
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Americanized form of Dutch De Groot or German Gross.English
Americanized form of Dutch De Groot or German Gross.English : variant of Greet, a nickname from Old English grēat ‘big’, ‘stout’, a habitational name from Greet in Gloucestershire or Greete in Shropshire, both named from an Old English grēote ‘gravelly place’, or a topographic name with the same meaning.
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, pearl.
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American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Indian, Latin, Scandinavian, Swedish
Form of Margaret; Child of Light; A Pearl
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One who has Guru's Blessing
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Name of a Raga
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Keeper of the sacred book, Successful
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Old and Wise Adviser; Old; Sage Ruler
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Signal, Goal
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Lord Vishnu
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Ambition
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a.
Having a great belly; bigbellied; pregnant; teeming.
v. t.
To entertain with food or drink, especially the latter, as a compliment, or as an expression of friendship or regard; as, to treat the whole company.
superl.
Entitled to earnest consideration; weighty; important; as, a great argument, truth, or principle.
v. i.
To negotiate; to come to terms of accommodation; -- often followed by with; as, envoys were appointed to treat with France.
superl.
Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length.
superl.
Holding a chief position; elevated: lofty: eminent; distingushed; foremost; principal; as, great men; the great seal; the great marshal, etc.
a.
Great.
superl.
Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble; as, a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, etc.
v. t.
To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient.
v. t.
To discourse on; to handle in a particular manner, in writing or speaking; as, to treat a subject diffusely.
v. i.
See Greet, to weep.
superl.
Older, younger, or more remote, by single generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as, great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's father), great-grandson, etc.
n.
That which affords entertainment; a gratification; a satisfaction; as, the concert was a rich treat.
n.
The whole; the gross; as, a contract to build a ship by the great.
superl.
Large in number; numerous; as, a great company, multitude, series, etc.
v. t.
To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.
v. t.
To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid.
superl.
Long continued; lengthened in duration; prolonged in time; as, a great while; a great interval.
superl.
More than ordinary in degree; very considerable in degree; as, to use great caution; to be in great pain.
a.
Great as a man's arm.