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tactus

[ tahk-toos ]

/ ˈtɑk tʊs /

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noun

the basic metrical unit in medieval music.

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Origin of tactus

<Latin tāctus touch; see tact

Words nearby tactus

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How to use tactus in a sentence

Abbot Michael, he says, tactus est communi incommodo inter primos de suis monachis qui illo letali morbo percussi sunt.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II)|Charles Creighton
On the contrary, I am become an advocate for the passion; for I too am cœlo tactus, Currus bene se habet.
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. I (of 9)|Thomas Jefferson
One need have well-educated fingers—what surgeons call the tactus eruditus—to work like this in the dark.
Sail Ho!|George Manville Fenn
Tactus, Touching is propper to a crooked line, compared either with a right line or crooked, as is manifest out of the 2.
The Way To Geometry|Peter Ramus

The tactus eruditus extends to the mind as well as to the finger-ends.
Medical Essays|Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.