单词 | stratagemical |
释义 | stratagemicaladj. Now rare. Of, relating to, or characterized by the use of stratagems or strategy. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adjective] > in contrivance or machination politic1543 practical1563 fetching1570 driftyc1571 Machiavellian1572 stratagematical1583 stratagemical1585 stratagematic1589 drifting1596 enterprising1602 Machiavelline1602 practitional1602 engineering1631 polititious1638 Machiavellic1645 designing1661 intriguing1790 manoeuvring1801 systematizing1827 scheming1838 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adjective] > in contrivance or machination > belonging to or of nature of stratagem stratagemical1585 stratagemous1606 1585 S. Daniel in tr. P. Giovio Worthy Tract contayning Disc. Imprese sig. H.iii A Calthrope, a Stratagemical instrument vsed in warre. 1599 R. Linche Fountaine Anc. Fiction sig. Viiii The house of Mars..is built in an obscure corner of Thracia, where the people wholly giue and addict themselues to warres and stratagemicall policies. 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 331 Their [sc. the Jesuits'] paradoxall, pragmaticall, and stratagemicall doctrine. 1688 Tripos delivered at Univ. Dublin in J. Barrett Ess. Earlier Pt. Life of Swift (1808) 76 His wife, who, to gain entirely his affections, sent him this stratagemical epistle. 1701 J. Collier tr. L. Moréri Great Hist. Dict. (ed. 2) II. Marabotti... He was a good soldier, and particularly considerable in the Stratagemical Part of War. 1838 B. Corney Ideas on Controv. 12 In every species of controversy, there is scope for the exercise of stratagemical ingenuity. 1996 Amer. Lit. Hist. 8 570 This twin tendency of not recognizing and marginalizing queer sexuality is rampant, even in a stratagemical way. Derivatives strataˈgemically adv. by means of a stratagem; in a cunning or clever manner. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adverb] > with contrivance or machination stratagematically1592 Machiavellianly1594 stratagemically1602 designingly1649 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 104 Which to performe stratagemically, they commended his said Vncle exceedingly. 1838 B. Corney Ideas on Controv. 12 A fact or argument of an inconveniently formidable nature, may be met stratagemically. 1873 ‘Recusant’ Considerations Clergy p. vii (heading) The animal spirit uses the moral law stratagemically. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1585 |
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