2. (Mus.)
Defn: 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.
TACTABLE
Tac"ta*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being touched; tangible. [R.] "They [women] being created to be both tractable and tactable." Massinger.
TACTFUL
Tact"ful, a.
Defn: Full of tact; characterized by a discerning sense of what is right, proper, or judicious.
TACTIC; TACTICAL
Tac"tic, Tac"tic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. tactics.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to the art of military and naval tactics.
— Tac"tic*al*ly, adv.
TACTIC
Tac"tic, n.