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Webster 1913 Edition
Tactics
Tac′tics
,Noun.
[Gr.
τακτικά
pl., and τακτική
(sc. τέχνη
, sing., fr. τακτικόσ
fit for ordering or arranging, fr. τάσσειν
, τάττειν
, to put in order, to arrange: cf. F. tactique
.] 1.
The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and elementary tactics, or the tactics of instruction.
2.
Hence, any system or method of procedure.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tactics
TAC'TICS
,Noun.
1.
The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle and performing military and naval evolutions. In the most extensive sense, tactics, la grande tactique of the French, comprehends every thing that relates to the order, formation and disposition of armies, their encampments, &c.2.
The art of inventing and making machines for throwing darts, arrows, stones and other missile weapons.