a. ? Obs. [f. med.L. logisticus (see LOGISTIC a.) + -AL.]

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  1.  Pertaining to or based upon reasoning or disputation. (Cf. LOGISTIC 1.)

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1644.  Bulwer, Chiron., 3. The Logisticall motions that appear in the Hands of Disputants.

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1653.  R. Sanders, Physiogn., 214. That Logistical or rational facultie of the soul.

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1833.  New Monthly Mag., XXXVIII. 13. A question that depended upon no abstruse or logistical reasoning.

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  2.  Pertaining to calculation. = LOGISTIC 2.

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1570.  Billingsley, Euclid, XI. xxxiv. 349. Ye may vse the logistical secret of approching nere to the precise verytye.

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1640.  Wilkins, New Planet, X. (1707), 272. The Sacred Story … does so exactly agree with the Conversions of Heaven, and Logistical Astronomy.

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  3.  Math. = LOGISTIC 3.

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1653.  Shakerley (title), Tabulæ Britannicæ: The British Tables: Wherein is contained Logistical Arithmetick, the Doctrine of the Sphere, Astronomicall Chronologie [etc.]. Ibid., 1. Chap. 1. Of Logisticall Multiplication and Division. Ibid., 2. A new Table of Logistical Logarithmes.

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1706.  Phillips (ed. Kersey), Logistical Arithmetick, was formerly the Arithmetick of Sexagesimal Fractions…. It is now taken by some for the expeditious Arithmetick of Logarithms, by which all the Trouble of Multiplication and Division is sav’d.

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1709–29.  Mandey, Syst. Math., Arith., 74. Astronomical [Arithmetic], which sometimes also is called Logistical. Ibid., 78. Of Logistical Addition [i.e., addition of degrees, minutes, seconds, etc.; of years, days, hours, etc.].

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1777.  Sir G. Shuckburgh, in Phil. Trans., LXVII. 586, note. This table bears some analogy to the tables of logistical logarithms.

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