[Ads-l] antedating strategery

[Bill Mullins]

OED has 1848 for n. 1. "The use of devious or dishonest schemes, tricks, or ploys, in order to achieve a particular end. "

1842 Baltimore Patriot and Commercial Gazette 12 Jul 1/3 [genealogybank, page # uncertain]

MR. CLIFFORD, of Maine, who is more sketched in party strategery than distinguished for honesty of opinion or purpose, made a sort of non-committal speech, very much like the responses of some of the ancient oracles which meant any thing, and nothing.

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