1841. J. T. Hewlett, Parish Clerk, III. 71. As they treated every body that chose to be treated, declared that ‘the devil was not half so black as he was painted;’ the interpretation of which was left to the treatees.
1884. Stockton, in Century Mag., XXVIII. 588. Each took a cigar with that careless yet deferential manner which always distinguishes the treatee from the treator.
