Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Music Be silent. Used chiefly as a direction.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In musical notation, an indication that the instrument or voice in whose part it is inserted is silent for a time.
Wiktionary
- v. music instruction indicating silence on the part of the performers of a piece
GNU Webster's 1913
- (Mus.) It is silent; -- a direction for a vocal or instrumental part to be silent during a whole movement.
Etymologies
- From Latin tacēre (to be silent) (Wiktionary)
- Latin, third person sing. present tense of tacēre, to be silent. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The author at qui tacet consentire videtur in a related article titled Leaning closer to authoritarianism? writes:”
Doubt the Vote, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Should I take this as a tacet endorsement of lying to support an argument?”
“Et Papa tacet': the genocide of Polish Catholics.”
“The author at qui tacet consentire videtur in a related article titled Subsidizing altruism and the National Infocomm Scholarship writes:”
Economics and charity runs, Eric Crampton | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“In a previous post about St Thomas More I wrote at his trial he used a latin legal phrase, "Qui tacet consentiret", "Silence Implies Consent.”
“Quum tacet omnis ager, pecudes, pietaeque volucres;”
“Et postquam dominus biberit, tunc exclamat minister sicut priùs, et tacet citharista: tunc bibunt omnes in circuitu viri et mulieres: et aliquando bibunt certatim valde turpiter et gulose.”
“Et postquam dominus biberit, tunc exclamat minister sicut pri鵶, et tacet citharista: tunc bibunt omnes in circuitu viri et mulieres: et aliquando bibunt certatim valde turpiter et gulose.”
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“To permit such falsifications to pass unnoticed and unchallenged is a species of connivance at error; for, to quote a maxim which is recognized alike in morals and in law, _Qui tacet consentire videtur: _ "Silence gives consent.”
The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886
“Somne, tuis? tacet omne pecus volucresque feraeque et simulant fessos curvata cacumina somnos, nec trucibus fluviis idem sonus; occidit horror aequoris, et terris maria acclinata quiescunt. septima iam rediens Phoebe mihi respicit aegras stare genas; totidem Oetaeae Paphiaeque revisunt lampades et totiens nostros Tithonia questus praeterit et gelido spargit miserata flagello. unde ego sufficiam? non si mihi lumina mille quae sacer alterna tantum statione tenebat”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tacet’.
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Muse's tacet ,to learn
Music brings silence's to raging thoughts and temperament , calm, as it is our object of definite purpose.
tacet, cadence, tempo, treble clef, penultimate, lexicon, origin, orchestra, kantele, magus, eros, coalesce and 248 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2057 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 569 more...
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