a. Obs. Also 7 strategematick. [a. obs. F. strategematique (16th c. in Godefroy), stratag- (Cotgr.), or ad. L. stratēgēmatic-us, f. stratēgēmat-, stratēgēma STRATAGEM.] Relating to, versed in, stratagem or strategy.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, I. viii. (Arb.), 35. Of this sorte of phantasie are all good Poets, notable Captaines stratagematique, all cunning artificers and enginers.
1629. Maxwell, trans. Herodian, VI. 3, marg. In which words the excellent Author hath couched both the parts of Warre: viz. Tactick and Strategematick.
1646. J. Hall, Horæ Vac., 163. Greece and Rome did most excell in the art of War, whether the Tactick or the Stratagematick part. Ibid. (1650), Paradoxes, 93. Many great stratagematick wits, have no better ways either of startleing their enemies, or retaining their friends, then by increasing the shew of their dangers.
