tactus

[ tahk-toos ]

noun

1. the basic metrical unit in medieval music.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tactus¹

< Latin tāctus touch; tact

Example Sentences

Abbot Michael, he says, tactus est communi incommodo inter primos de suis monachis qui illo letali morbo percussi sunt.

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On the contrary, I am become an advocate for the passion; for I too am cœlo tactus, Currus bene se habet.

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One need have well-educated fingers—what surgeons call the tactus eruditus—to work like this in the dark.

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Tactus, Touching is propper to a crooked line, compared either with a right line or crooked, as is manifest out of the 2.

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The tactus eruditus extends to the mind as well as to the finger-ends.

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