tactus
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tactus
< Latin tāctus touch; see tact
Example Sentences
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Under the old rule of tactus, Jesuit seminarians were forbidden even to put an arm on the shoulder of a buddy; now they greet one another with warm abrazos.
From Time Magazine Archive
Poenituit Deum quod hominem fecisset in terra, et tactus dolore cordis intrinsecus, delebo, inquit, hominem.
From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
The tactus eruditus extends to the mind as well as to the finger-ends.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Quod facie Rex tutus erat, quod caetera tactus: Hinc hominem Rex est fassus, et inde Deum.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
“One need have well-educated fingers—what surgeons call the tactus eruditus—to work like this in the dark.”
From Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea by Fenn, George Manville
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