[a. F. stratégiste, f. stratégie STRATEGY.] One versed in strategy.
1838. J. Mitchell, Thoughts on Tactics, 30. Strategy … presupposes in the strategist a perfect knowledge of tactics.
1877. Green, Hist. Engl. People, I. 426. Edward … had shewn himself as consummate a strategist in the campaign as a tactician in the field.
1912. G. O. Trevelyan, Geo. III. & Fox, I. i. 18. The elder Pitt … was a maritime strategist of the highest order.
transf. 1872. Lowell, Milton, Writ. 1890, IV. 99. He was a strategist rather than a drill-sergeant in verse.
1911. Sir H. Craik, Life Clarendon, I. iii. 74. A few weeks were to show Pym’s wonderful astuteness as a parliamentary strategist.
