tacit
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) tacitus < (deprecated template usage) tacere.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
tacit (comparative more tacit, superlative most tacit)
- Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection.
- 1983. ROSEN, Stanley. Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine’s Press. p. 62.
- He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer
- 1983. ROSEN, Stanley. Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine’s Press. p. 62.
- Template:logic Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.
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Translations
Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent
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Not derived from formal principles of reasoning
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External links
- “tacit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “tacit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “tacit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.