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pilotism|ˈpaɪlətɪz(ə)m| [f. pilot n. + -ism.] The practice of a pilot; pilotage.
1611Cotgr., Pilotage, Pilotisme; th'office, or Art of a Pilot. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. Introd. (1674) 24/1 Petrus de Medina..and Johannes Aurigarius..chief Writers in the Art of Pilotism. 1776S. J. Pratt Pupil of Pleas. II. 32, I am between a Scylla and a Charybdis, and uncommonly skilful must be my pilotism, or I must split upon the rocks. |