different between strategetic vs strategical

English

Etymology

Functionally strategy +? -etic, rendering ????????????? (strat?g?tikós), a rare variant of ??????????? (strat?gikós) (whence the more common English word strategic).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /st?at??d??t?k/

Adjective

strategetic (comparative more strategetic, superlative most strategetic)

1. (now rare) Strategic. [from 19th c.]
   • 1847, JDB de Bow, Commercial Review of the South and West, page 261:

     The importance of having these great strategetic points fortified has been demonstrated by scientific gentlemen conversant with these subjects.

   • 1862, Anthony Trollope, North America:

     He […] entertained an idea that Cairo was the nucleus or pivot of all really strategetic movements in this terrible national struggle.

   • 1872, Elodie Lawton Mijatovi?, The History of Modern Serbia, page 258:

     This line must have immense strategetic importance to Turkey, since it guards against possible Serbian aggression.

References

Further reading

• strategetic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Robert Joseph Sullivan, A Dictionary of the English Language (1862), page 428

English

Adjective

strategical (comparative more strategical, superlative most strategical)

1. (rare) Strategic.

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