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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Silent; quiescent; giving out no sound.
  2. Silently indicated or implied; understood from conditions or circumstances; inferred or inferable; expressed otherwise than by speech; indirectly mainfested or communicated; wordless.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection.
  2. adj. logic Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. implied by or inferred from actions or statements

Etymologies

  1. From Latin tacitus ("that is passed over in silence, done without words, assumed as a matter of course, silent"), from tacere ("to be silent"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin tacitus, silent, past participle of tacēre, to be silent. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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