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Webster 1913 Edition
Tact
1.
The sense of touch; feeling.
Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to
tact
as well as sight? Southey.
Now, sight is a very refined
tact
. J. Le Conte.
2.
(Mus.)
The stroke in beating time.
3.
Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.
He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to those of Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a
tact
and wariness worthy of Mazarin. Macaulay.
A
tact
which surpassed the tact
of her sex as much as the tact
of her sex surpassed the tact
of ours. Macaulay.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tact
TACT
,Noun.
1.
Touch; feeling; formerly, the stroke in beating time in music.2.
Peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment.