Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A war-game or kriegspiel. See kriegspiel.

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Examples

  • He had to be a man of some wealth and substance, for it was no trivial expense to maintain a heavy warhorse and its armour; but this was equally true of a Byzantine cavalryman, who served under a strategos, but had technically no liege lord except the emperor.

    superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism superversive 2010

  • “There are none here, strategos,” Teutiaplas bowed and spoke softly, “these are all wharfmen.”

    The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • Each theme held a certain body of troops, derived from the field armies of an earlier day, commanded by a strategos or general.

    superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism superversive 2010

  • It was not the strategos who gave lands to the troops, but the emperor himself; and there were no intermediate layers of vassals between the emperor and the soldier.

    superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism superversive 2010

  • Teutiaplas eyed the selected crew and the grinning Cleon and voiced his own suspicion, “There are better men, strategos.”

    The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • In Byzantine terms, we could say that Imrahil was the principal landowner in Belfalas, the head of its leading family, and strategos of the district; but he was strategos at the gift of the Ruling Steward, who could in principle revoke his gift.

    superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism superversive 2010

  • King Corvus stood not far uphill, speaking in private with his strategos.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • The strategos was in the antechamber of the bathing room, wearing his hose and a thin shirt.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • King Corvus stood not far uphill, speaking in private with his strategos.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • The strategos was in the antechamber of the bathing room, wearing his hose and a thin shirt.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

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