? nonce-wd. [f. L. strāta road (see STREET sb.) + -(I)FY.] trans. To furnish with a system of roads.
1881. C. Wordsworth, Ch. Hist., I. ii. 15. The Greek Empire … had facilitated national intercourse by sea. The Roman Empire, by its great military roads, accelerated that intercourse by land. Greece and Rome navigated and stratified the world.
