strategic, strategical

[Gr. strategi kos, from str atégia =strategy (q. v.); French str até gique: Italian strategico.] Pertaining to strategy; effected by strategy; of the nature of strategy. strategic-line, s. relating to strata or their disposition; relating to the manner in which substances are arranged in strata in nature. "The fifth book is palæontological; the sixth stratigraphical." - Athenœum, Oct. 28, 1882. străt i graph-ic-al-ly, adv . [English strati graphical ; -ly .] In a stratigraphical manner; as regards stratigraphy or the disposition of strata. str a-tig-ra-phy, s. [Eng.=a stratum, and Gr. graphoto write, to describe.] Geol .: That department of geology which deals with the disposition or arrangement of strata, c. the order in which they succeed each other.