Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as strategical.

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  • adjective archaic strategic

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Examples

  • He would ride off in the afternoon upon that research, remarking that he was going to “cast a strategetical eye” on Chertsey or Weybridge.

    The History of Mr. Polly 2003

  • Durant, who considered himself a perfect genius in contriving strategetical measures, now turned all his attention to the execution of the secret plans he had matured.

    Ellen Walton The Villain and His Victims Alvin Addison

  • Bosporus, one of the finest strategetical positions of the old continent.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • He would ride off in the afternoon upon that research, remarking that he was going to "cast a strategetical eye" on Chertsey or Weybridge.

    The History of Mr. Polly 1906

  • Of course, some of them, though indecisive as regards loss and damage, were strategetical victories: thus, Admiral Arbuthnot beat back Admiral Barras off the Chesapeake, in March of 1781; and near the same place in September of the same year the French had their revenge in the victory (one at least in its results) of the Comte de Grasse over Sir Thomas Graves.

    The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • The strategetical importance of _Valenciennes_, a town of 32,000 inhabitants, is due to its being the meeting places of main roads from

    1914 John Denton Pinkstone French 1888

  • Their position was in a sense a strategetical one.

    The Vultures Henry Seton Merriman 1882

  • Mr. McKim, with his usual good judgment and remarkably quick strategetical mind, especially in matters pertaining to the U.G. Railroad, hit upon the following plan, namely, to go to his friend E.M. Davis, who was engaged in mercantile business, and relate the circumstances.

    Life and Adventures of James Williams, a Fugitive Slave, with a Full Description of the Underground Railroad 1873

  • The President, in a strategetical point of view, may have been, very probably has been, quite right.

    North America 1862

  • Whatever may have been the strategetical merits or demerits of the Northern generals, it is at any rate certain that their apparent successes were greedily welcomed by the people, and created an idea that things were going well with the cause.

    North America 1862

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