tacit

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  1. adjective Not spoken: indicated tacit approval by smiling and winking.
  2. adjective Implied by or inferred from actions or statements: Management has given its tacit approval to the plan.
  3. adjective Law Arising by operation of the law rather than through direct expression.

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  • How can you be the secretary of Homeland Security and leave 300 million Americans vulnerable to terrorist attack and actually help perpetuate a losing war on drugs in this country, as well as just by tacit -- by inaction condone illegal entry of a million people into this country a year? —  CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2006
  • Q Does that mean we should take from what you're saying that there was neither an explicit nor tacit -- —  Dee Dee Myers Press Briefing
  • How can you be the secretary of Homeland Security and leave 300 million Americans vulnerable to terrorist attack and actually help perpetuate a losing war on drugs in this country, as well as, just by tacit -- by inaction, condone illegal entry of a million people into this country a year? —  CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2006
  • 37, 38 Supposing Polycarp to have had these words from the books in which we now find them, it is manifest that these books were considered by him, and, as he thought, considered by his readers, us authentic accounts of Christ's discourses; and that that point was incontestible [sic The following is a decisive, though what we call a tacit reference to St. Peter's speech in the Acts of the Apostles:--"whom God hath raised, having loosed the pains of death." —  Evidence of Christianity
  • The following is a decisive, though what we call a tacit reference to —  Evidence of Christianity
 

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unspoken ·  implicit ·  unqualified ·  mutual ·  unequivocal ·  unanimous ·  prior ·  unconditional ·  mute ·  unreserved ·  indirect ·  verbal
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin tacitus, silent, past participle of tacēre, to be silent.

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  1. = French tacite = Spanish tácito = Portuguese Italian tacito, from Latin tacitus, that is passed over in silence, done without words, assumed as a matter of course, silent, from tacere, be silent.
 

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/ˈtæsɪt/
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