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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tacit
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tacit/unspoken assumption (=one that no one says aloud)
▪ There seemed to be a tacit assumption that they would get married.
tacit consent (=one that is not given verbally or in writing, but that you feel someone has given)
▪ If you continue to live in a particular state when it is possible to leave, this implies tacit consent to that state’s political system.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
admission
▪ It implies a tacit admission of equality which can be almost priceless.
▪ His enemies imply that his resignation is a tacit admission of guilt.
agreement
▪ Custom, practice and a tacit agreement not to rock the boat did the rest.
▪ In tacit agreement, they separated before reaching the farm.
▪ The response - from tacit agreement to outrage - was enormous ....
▪ It was better to say nothing and to convey, by the quality of her silence, a level of tacit agreement.
▪ When as Chancellor he was preparing to enter in 1985, he said, tacit agreement had been reached with the Bundesbank.
▪ Your silence may be taken to mean tacit agreement.
approval
▪ Even more important was Edward's tacit approval of the use his brother made of his northern power.
assumption
▪ Objections to the tacit assumption of Saint-Venant's principle or the above rule of thumb arise however. 1.
▪ No one actually claims this is how the brain works, but there is a tacit assumption that it might be.
collusion
▪ We now consider what they imply for the analysis of tacit collusion.
▪ In respect of tacit collusion there is far less clarity.
▪ There will always be the problem of trying to infer whether apparently tacit collusion really was well-concealed explicit collusion.
consent
▪ Locke also suggests that a man's presence in a particular state implies tacit consent to its political system.
▪ By remaining in society, one gives one's tacit consent to it.
support
▪ Provenzano's greatest assets are knowledge of the terrain and tacit support in villages and hamlets.
▪ The language appeared to indicate tacit support for the opposition.
▪ The de Maiziëre government was able to continue with the tacit support of the Liberals.
▪ There are a variety of professional associations of doctors, nurses and teachers which give tacit support to the regime.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Roh's remarks indicated a tacit acceptance of the high-level talks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Custom, practice and a tacit agreement not to rock the boat did the rest.
▪ In both cases tacit knowledge and experience is accepted as valid and enhanced and developed.
▪ It is a tacit acknowledgement that neither office nor a peerage awaits them.
▪ Locke also suggests that a man's presence in a particular state implies tacit consent to its political system.
▪ No one actually claims this is how the brain works, but there is a tacit assumption that it might be.
▪ The language appeared to indicate tacit support for the opposition.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tacit

Tacit \Tac"it\, a. [L. tacitus, p. p. of tacere to be silent, to pass over in silence; akin to Goth. [thorn]ahan to be silent, Icel. [thorn]egja, OHG. dag[=e]n: cf. F. tacite. Cf. Reticent.] Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection. -- Tac"it*ly, adv.

The tacit and secret theft of abusing our brother in civil contracts.
--Jer. Taylor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tacit

c.1600, "silent, unspoken," from French tacite and directly from Latin tacitus "that is passed over in silence, done without words, assumed as a matter of course, silent," past participle of tacere "be silent, not speak," from suffixed form of PIE root *tak- "to be silent" (cognates: Gothic þahan, Old Norse þegja "to be silent," Old Norse þagna "to grow dumb," Old Saxon thagian, Old High German dagen "to be silent"). The musical instruction tacet is the 3rd person present singular of the Latin verb. Related: Tacitly.

Wiktionary
tacit

a. 1 express in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent. 2 (context logic English) Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.

WordNet
tacit

adj. indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly; "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood provisos of a custody agreement" [syn: implied, silent, understood]

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Usage examples of "tacit".

Tacit, now I was seized with the desire to do something about those contemptuous looks that Astel was giving me.

And I saw Astel in those eyes, laughing at me, and Tacit in those eyes, proclaiming that he, not I, was the hero, and I saw the contempt of the knights, the sneers of the squires, the disdain of Stroker, everyone, all encapsulated in this one neat package.

I saw Astel in those eyes, laughing at me, and Tacit in those eyes, proclaiming that he, not I, was the hero, and I saw the contempt of the knights, the sneers of the squires, the disdain of Stroker, everyone, all encapsulated in this one neat package.

There is a tradition that Lebkuchen are exchanged by lovers, and although the relationship between Marjorie Dean and the young corporal was proper almost to the point of being staid, there was some times an element of tacit flirtation in the choice of these breads and cakes.

Doctor Blumenthal--the latter a little man pitted with smallpox, who was endeavouring by tacit, pacificatory signs with his head and eyes to reassure the perturbed Gasha.

For this particular moment in time the Imperial government would enter into what amounted to a tacit alliance with the Tro Wa, using the secret society like a shield, thereby sheltering itself from off-world retribution.

I did not mind this, as I knew that Wiggy liked to maintain a certain tacit pride in the face of my scepticism, but when she mentioned that Eileen had read the tea leaves and promised her a late marriage I drew the line.

On the rise of philosophic reflection, these tacit presuppositions are first taken as dogmas, and later as postulates of scientific generalisation, and of the architectonic unification of science.

Creator and endeavours to the utmost to profane Him and to harm His creatures, for all other simple heresies have made no open compact with the devil, no compact, that is, either tacit or exactly expressed, although their errors and misbelief are directly to be attributed to the Father of errors and lies.

I have promised her a lusty springald with an iron yard as my surrogate, an she will keep tacit about my limitations.

Ariuzu insisted that his first days and weeks with the Clan be as stressless as possible, and Nicholas took that as a tacit hint that few questions were to be asked, and even fewer answers given.

When he had found his way, among the ash-barrels and the groups of decently dressed church-goers, to the docks, he experienced a sufficient excitement in the recent arrival of a French steamer, whose sheds were thronged with hacks and express-wagons, and in a tacit inquiry into the emotions of the passengers, fresh from the cleanliness of Paris, and now driving up through the filth of those streets.

What he offered was a tacit permission to explore my lustiness, unawakened until then.

The musicians seemed to play extemporaneously, weaving their melodies in and out around a subtle, tacit framework.

A Malwa assassination attempt, with the tacit approval of the Keralan authorities.