tacticsn.

/ˈtaktɪks/

Etymology: plural of tactic n.¹, rendering modern Latin (17th cent.) tactica plural, Greek τὰ τακτικά , lit. ‘matters pertaining to arrangement’: see -ic suffix 2.

a. The art or science of deploying military or naval forces in order of battle, and of performing warlike evolutions and manœuvres.As an art or science often construed as singular; as carried out in practice usually as plural.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [noun] > tactics

tactics1626

tactic1767

1626 W. Gouge Dignitie Chivalrie §4 Martiall discipline, Artillery tacticks, and Military trainings are matters of moment.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 31 Claudius Ælianus..flourished not long after in the raigne of Trajan, unto whom he dedicated his Tacticks .

1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II Tacticks, is the Art of Disposing any Number of Men into a proper form of Battle.

1782 V. Knox Ess. I. xix. 94 Tactics and fortification..must be studied, as essentially necessary to the military and naval officer.

1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. i. iv. 190 Their tactics by sea was a sort of land engagement on deck.

1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiii. 265 At Tinchebrai, though the chiefs are Norman, the tactics are English.

b. transferred and figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > course adopted to achieve an end

waya1225

wonec1290

mean waya1425

policyc1430

method1526

politicsa1529

politic1588

game1595

dent1597

efficacy1690

tactics1772

tactic1791

strategy1834

game plan1957

1772 W. Jones Poems 155 (note) The chief art in the Tacticks of Chess consists in the nice conduct of the royal pawns.

1842 E. Miall in Nonconformist 2 305 We have seen principle strangled by tactics so often.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits v. 83 In parliament, the tactics of the opposition is to resist every step of the government, by a pitiless attack.

†2. Arrangement, disposition. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [noun]

ordinancec1390

compositionc1400

order?a1425

rayc1440

ordination1531

dispose1603

divisiona1616

compositure1625

composure1628

method1640

tactics1650

allocation1656

rangement1674

schematism1701

arrangement1715

orderedness1724

groupment1837

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 392 So strange a posture, that scarcely either Jewish or Christian Tacticks of Temple-implements, will admit thereof.

3. Linguistics. C. F. Hockett's term for the study of the relation and arrangement of linguistic units, esp. the study of the arrangement of morphemes.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > [noun] > study of arrangement of morphemes

tactics1947

morphotactics1958

1947 C. F. Hockett in Language 23 274 We should therefore expect to find the following topics treated in his book..; (4) tactics—stating the arrangements of morphemes... This term seems simpler than ‘taxemics’ or ‘tagmemics’ which one might derive more directly from Bloomfield's labels.

1953 F. G. Lounsbury in Yale Univ. Publ. in Anthropol. xlviii. 18 Statements describing the occurrences of morphemes constitute the portion of a grammar called tactics... Tactics is not concerned with the phonemic forms of morphemes, whether they are constant or variable.

1966 S. M. Lamb Outl. Stratificational Gram. 1 Each of these systems has its own syntax or tactics, so that a linguistic structure as a whole has a series of tactic components rather than just one.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	tactics
释义	tacticsn. /ˈtaktɪks/ Etymology: plural of tactic n.¹, rendering modern Latin (17th cent.) tactica plural, Greek τὰ τακτικά , lit. ‘matters pertaining to arrangement’: see -ic suffix 2. 1. a. The art or science of deploying military or naval forces in order of battle, and of performing warlike evolutions and manœuvres.As an art or science often construed as singular; as carried out in practice usually as plural. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [noun] > tactics tactics1626 tactic1767 1626 W. Gouge Dignitie Chivalrie §4 Martiall discipline, Artillery tacticks, and Military trainings are matters of moment. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 31 Claudius Ælianus..flourished not long after in the raigne of Trajan, unto whom he dedicated his Tacticks . View more context for this quotation 1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II Tacticks, is the Art of Disposing any Number of Men into a proper form of Battle. 1782 V. Knox Ess. I. xix. 94 Tactics and fortification..must be studied, as essentially necessary to the military and naval officer. 1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. i. iv. 190 Their tactics by sea was a sort of land engagement on deck. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiii. 265 At Tinchebrai, though the chiefs are Norman, the tactics are English. b. transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > course adopted to achieve an end waya1225 wonec1290 mean waya1425 policyc1430 method1526 politicsa1529 politic1588 game1595 dent1597 efficacy1690 tactics1772 tactic1791 strategy1834 game plan1957 1772 W. Jones Poems 155 (note) The chief art in the Tacticks of Chess consists in the nice conduct of the royal pawns. 1842 E. Miall in Nonconformist 2 305 We have seen principle strangled by tactics so often. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits v. 83 In parliament, the tactics of the opposition is to resist every step of the government, by a pitiless attack. †2. Arrangement, disposition. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [noun] ordinancec1390 compositionc1400 order?a1425 rayc1440 ordination1531 dispose1603 divisiona1616 compositure1625 composure1628 method1640 tactics1650 allocation1656 rangement1674 schematism1701 arrangement1715 orderedness1724 groupment1837 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 392 So strange a posture, that scarcely either Jewish or Christian Tacticks of Temple-implements, will admit thereof. 3. Linguistics. C. F. Hockett's term for the study of the relation and arrangement of linguistic units, esp. the study of the arrangement of morphemes. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > [noun] > study of arrangement of morphemes tactics1947 morphotactics1958 1947 C. F. Hockett in Language 23 274 We should therefore expect to find the following topics treated in his book..; (4) tactics—stating the arrangements of morphemes... This term seems simpler than ‘taxemics’ or ‘tagmemics’ which one might derive more directly from Bloomfield's labels. 1953 F. G. Lounsbury in Yale Univ. Publ. in Anthropol. xlviii. 18 Statements describing the occurrences of morphemes constitute the portion of a grammar called tactics... Tactics is not concerned with the phonemic forms of morphemes, whether they are constant or variable. 1966 S. M. Lamb Outl. Stratificational Gram. 1 Each of these systems has its own syntax or tactics, so that a linguistic structure as a whole has a series of tactic components rather than just one. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1626
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