Word of the Day: STRATAGEMATIC


ETYMOLOGY
from obsolete French strategematique,
or from Latin strategematicus, from strategēmat-strategema (stratagem) + -icus (-ic)


EXAMPLE
“…Wherefore such persons as be illuminated with the brightest irradiations of knowledge and of the veritie and due proportion of things, they are called by the learned men not phantastici but euphantasioti, and of this sorte of phantasie are all good Poets, notable Captaines stratagematique, all cunning artificers and enginers, all Legislators, Polititiens, & Counsellours of estate, in whose exercises the inuentiue part is most employed, and is to the sound and true iudgement of man most needful…”

From: The Arte of English Poesie
By George Puttenham, 1589

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