a. [f. prec. + -AL.] = prec.
1828. Sir W. Napier, Penins. War, I. iv. I. 54. Hence Zaragoza … was a strategetical point of importance [ed. 1851 I. 33 was of strategic importance].
1849–50. Alison, Hist. Europe, lxxxiv. § 67. XII. 445. A city of the highest importance in a strategetical point of view, as being the place where several roads … intersect each other.
