Crossword clues for tacitly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
adv. In a tacit manner; done in silence or implied.
WordNet
adv. in a tacit manner; by unexpressed agreement; "they are tacitly expected to work 10 hours a day"
Usage examples of "tacitly".
Justice, moreover, demands that we acknowledge the existence of a small minority of dues-paying members of the Socialist Party who neither attack religion nor tacitly approve of the atheistic propaganda carried on in the official Marxian press, as well as in the books, pamphlets and magazines on sale not only in the leading Socialist book-stores of America, but even at the National Office of the party in Chicago.
We had no fixed plan, we could not have any, but we trusted to the god of love, and tacitly placed our confidence in his protection.
They gave it him back, in spite of my advice, for in doing so they admitted, tacitly at all events, that it had been won by cheating.
He said as much while he was examining a paper I had written, and as my writing was not as legible as his he tacitly told me I was his inferior, and that I should therefore treat him with some degree of respect.
Todd and Sue, tacitly, in face of the search for Charlie Sjambok, had forgotten their idea of going home.
Congress appropriated money to pay counsel on both sides of the argument, the Court passed on the constitutionality of the carriage tax and sustained it as valid, and in so doing tacitly assumed that it had the power to review Congressional acts.
If Aurelia had tacitly reproached herself to her husband with what were my crimes, and only mine--was it not my bounden duty to save her before it were too late?
March saw nothing but ruin ahead, and began tacitly to plan a retreat to Boston, and an establishment retrenched to the basis of two thousand a year.
Theodosius, by soliciting his friendship, tacitly forgave, and almost ratified, the usurpation of Gaul.
In what was their own explicitly, as well as what was tacitly theirs, they were not so restricted as we were at home, and especially the children seemed made fondly and lovingly free of all public things.
And consequently, inasmuch as the most reverend and illustrious Archbishop and Prince Elector of Treves not only permits witches and magicians to be subjected to deserved punishment in his diocese, but has also ordained laws regulating the mode and cost of the procedure against witches, thereby with inconsiderate temerity tacitly insinuating the charge of tyranny against the said Elector of Treves.
Very miserably conscious, too, was she all the time that she was now playing for a reward that was secretly, tacitly, humiliatingly denied her.
Tacitly, he had promised that he would not think of the Norths as murderers.
They gave it him back, in spite of my advice, for in doing so they admitted, tacitly at all events, that it had been won by cheating.
It was tacitly understood, if not definitely promised, that the conditions which the British Government would be prepared to grant would not differ much in essentials from those which had been refused by the Boers a twelvemonth before, after the Middelburg interview.