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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sense of touch; taction.
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Note 41: A. Mussafia, "Miscellen aus Grazer Handschriften," Zeitschrift für deutsche Alterthum 29 (1885): 350 — "Judeus quidam puer, olim christicolarum/conludens pueris et eorum tactus amore …" back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Catullus XI ends: nec meum respectet, ut ante, amorem, qui illius culpa cecidit velut prati ultimi flos, praetereunte postquam tactus aratrost.
On 'The Invention of Love': Another Exchange Stoppard, Tom 2000
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"Quæ sese tetigisse fatentur, an non aliquem pruritum extinguere tentaverit, et utrum pruritus ille cessaverit cum magnam senserint voluptatem; an tunc, ipsimet tactus cessaverint?"
The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional Father Chiniquy
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'Nec meum respectet, ut ante, amorem, qui illius culpa cecidit velut prati ultimi flos, praetereunte postquam tactus aratro est.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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The physician acquires by practice the _tactus eruditus_, or learned touch, which is often of great service, while the delicacy of touch possessed by the blind almost compensates the loss of the absent sense.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
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Yet the very stanza that follows ends in a sob: nec meum respectet, ut ante, amorem, qui illius culpa cecidit uelut prati ultimi flos, praetereunte postquam tactus aratrost.
Introduction 1912
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Nam ut hoc breui liqueat exemplo, eandem corporis rotunditatem aliter uisus aliter tactus agnoscit.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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We should still avail ourselves of every particle of information that can be gained by the trained eye, the educated ear, the expert touch, -- the _tactus eruditus_ of the medical classics, -- and even the sense of smell.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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Poenituit Deum quod hominem fecisset in terra, et tactus dolore cordis intrinsecus, delebo, inquit, hominem ....
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888
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But the _tactus eruditus_ of the young surgeon was continuing the search for some evidence that the savage stab was not fatal, and his mind was busy with means for preserving life, should there be a chance.
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