Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb Be silent. Used chiefly as a direction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In musical notation, an indication that the instrument or voice in whose part it is inserted is silent for a time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Mus.) It is silent; -- a direction for a vocal or instrumental part to be silent during a whole movement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb music instruction indicating
silence on the part of theperformers of apiece
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The author at qui tacet consentire videtur in a related article titled Leaning closer to authoritarianism? writes:
Is Elitism the Answer?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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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 2009
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Should I take this as a tacet endorsement of lying to support an argument?
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'Et Papa tacet': the genocide of Polish Catholics.
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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 2009
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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."
A New Look At the Spanish Inquisition de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Quum tacet omnis ager, pecudes, pietaeque volucres;
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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.
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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.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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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 Various
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