rare. [Formed as STRATEGY + -AN.]
† 1. Used by Holland to render Pliny’s strategia (στρατηγία), a government or province. Cf. STRATEGY 1. Obs.
1601. Holland, Pliny, VI. ix. I. 119. This is well knowne, that divided it [Armenia] is into certaine regiments, which they call Strategians.
2. A strategist.
1901. Hornung, Raffles, vi. 107. He [Raffles] was both strategian and tactician, and we all now know the difference between the two.
1912. A. F. Whyte, in Everyman, 15 Nov., 135. The strategians of the corrupt party.
