单词 | tactician |
释义 | tacticiann. One versed or skilled in the science or art of tactics. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [noun] > tactics > strategist or tactician general1579 captain1590 encamper1598 soldier1603 tactic1638 tactician1798 manoeuvrera1805 strategist1821 1798 Ld. Auckland Corr. (1862) III. 386 An armed nation, composed, perhaps, of ignorant tacticians, but steady and brave. 1838 Sparks' Biog. IX. Steuben 23 Trained under so expert a tactician as the great Frederic. 1877 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People I. 426 Edward..had shewn himself as consummate a strategist in the campaign as a tactician in the field. Derivatives (Bad formations, confusing -ician with -ition). tacˈticianize v. to play the tactician.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1868 Guardian 12 Aug. 905 He does not tacticianize morning, noon, and night. tacˈtitionary adj. ΚΠ 1890 Sir J. Ferguson in Standard 1 May 2/2 But that [legislation] was altogether artificial and tactitionary. 1890 Sat. Rev. 3 May 519/2 The possibly useful, but not blessed, word ‘tactitionary’. tacˈtitionist n. ΚΠ 1881 Philadelphia Record No. 3467. 2 Mr. Wheeler has never been a tactitionist in his party. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1798 |
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