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Once and a half times as great as another; having the ratio of one and a half to one. Sesquialteral ratio (Math.), the ratio of one and a half to one; thus, 9 and 6 are in a sequialteral ratio.

Planet-struck; blasted. [Obs.]

See Seraskierate.

To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Hoped for, or to be hoped for. [R.] Bouvier.

The office or position of a stadtholder.

A salt of stearic acid; as, ordinary soap consists largely of sodium or potassium stearates.

Excrement; dung. [Obs.]

Strategic.

Strategy.

Of or pertaining to strategy; effected by artifice. -- Stra*te"gic*al*ly, adv. Strategic line (Mil.), a line joining strategic points. -- Strategic point (Mil.), any point or region in the theater or warlike operations which affords to its possessor an advantage over his opponent, as a mountain pass, a junction of ri…

Strategy.

One skilled in strategy, or the science of directing great military movements.

The leader or commander of an army; a general.

The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.

To ravish; to debauch. [R.] Heywood.

Having a form resembling that of a colter, or straight on one side and curved on the other.

A salt of suberic acid.

ce the shoulders under; to bear. [Obs.] Nothing surer ties a friend than freely to subhumerate the burden which was his. Feltham.

To supply; to afford; to subminister. [Obs.] Harvey.