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tactician|tækˈtɪʃən|
[f. as tactic n.1 + -ian. So mod.F. tacticien (1812 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
One versed or skilled in the science or art of tactics.
1798Ld. Auckland Corr. (1862) III. 386 An armed nation, composed, perhaps, of ignorant tacticians, but steady and brave. 1838Sparks' Biog. IX. Steuben 23 Trained under so expert a tactician as the great Frederic. 1877Green Hist. Eng. People I. 426 Edward..had shewn himself as consummate a strategist in the campaign as a tactician in the field.
transf.1842Miall in Nonconf. II. 505 The lubricity of the clever tactician. 1880‘Ouida’ Moths I. 143 She was a clever tactician.
Hence tacˈticianize v. nonce-wd., to play the tactician; tacˈtitionary a., tacˈtitionist (bad formations, confusing -ician with -ition).
1868Guardian 12 Aug. 905 He does not tacticianize morning, noon, and night. 1881Philad. (U.S.) Record No. 3467. 2 Mr. Wheeler has never been a tactitionist in his party. 1890Sir J. Ferguson in Standard 1 May 2/2 But that [legislation] was altogether artificial and tactitionary. 1890Sat. Rev. 3 May 519/2 The possibly useful, but not blessed, word ‘tactitionary’. |