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EtymologyEdit
From Latin tacitus (“that is passed over in silence, done without words, assumed as a matter of course, silent”), from tacere (“to be silent”).
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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.
- (logic) Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.
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Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent
Not derived from formal principles of reasoning
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External linksEdit
- tacit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- tacit in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- tacit at OneLook Dictionary Search