a. [ad. Gr. στρατηγητικ-ός, f. στρατηγειν: see STRATAGEM.] = STRATEGIC.

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1848.  W. K. Kelly, trans. L. Blanc’s Hist. Ten Y., II. 393. Fieschi had invented the fatal machine with views entirely strategetic.

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1862.  Trollope, N. Amer., II. 151. He … entertained an idea that Cairo was the nucleus or pivot of all really strategetic movements in this terrible national struggle.

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1870.  Anderson, Missions Amer. Board, IV. xxxii. 210. Acquainted with the field, with its wants, and its strategetic points.

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