† stratarithmetryn.

Forms: 1500s–1600s stratarithmetrie, 1700s stratarithmetry.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek στρατός , ἀριθμός , -metry comb. form.

Etymology: Irregularly < ancient Greek στρατός army (see stratocracy n.) + ἀριθμός number (see arithmetic n.¹) + -metry comb. form.Compare later (more regularly formed) stratarithmometry (attested only in dictionaries and encyclopedias):1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) Stratarithmometry, in war, the art of drawing up an army, or any part of it, in any given geometrical figure; and of expressing the number of men contained in such a figure.

Obsolete.

The art or practice of accurately estimating the number of men in an army or other body by organizing the men into the shape of a given geometrical figure and using geometry to calculate the estimate.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [noun] > art of drawing up and estimating number

stratarithmetry1570

1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. aiiij ^v Stratarithmetrie, is the Skill, (appertainyng to the warre,) by which a man can set in figure, analogicall to any Geometricall figure appointed, any certaine number or summe of men.

1653 J. Webster Academiarum Examen v. 52 What shall I say of Staticks, Architecture, Pneumatithmie, Stratarithmetrie, and rest enumerated by that expert and learned man, Dr. John Dee in his Preface before Euclide?

1724 R. Sutton Let. to Sir T. Parkyns (1726) 4 To whom even in Stratarithmetry I submit.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	stratarithmetry
释义	† stratarithmetryn. Forms: 1500s–1600s stratarithmetrie, 1700s stratarithmetry. Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek στρατός , ἀριθμός , -metry comb. form. Etymology: Irregularly < ancient Greek στρατός army (see stratocracy n.) + ἀριθμός number (see arithmetic n.¹) + -metry comb. form.Compare later (more regularly formed) stratarithmometry (attested only in dictionaries and encyclopedias):1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) Stratarithmometry, in war, the art of drawing up an army, or any part of it, in any given geometrical figure; and of expressing the number of men contained in such a figure. Obsolete. The art or practice of accurately estimating the number of men in an army or other body by organizing the men into the shape of a given geometrical figure and using geometry to calculate the estimate. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [noun] > art of drawing up and estimating number stratarithmetry1570 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. aiiij ^v Stratarithmetrie, is the Skill, (appertainyng to the warre,) by which a man can set in figure, analogicall to any Geometricall figure appointed, any certaine number or summe of men. 1653 J. Webster Academiarum Examen v. 52 What shall I say of Staticks, Architecture, Pneumatithmie, Stratarithmetrie, and rest enumerated by that expert and learned man, Dr. John Dee in his Preface before Euclide? 1724 R. Sutton Let. to Sir T. Parkyns (1726) 4 To whom even in Stratarithmetry I submit. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1570
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