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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Tacit(e, adj. (adv.). [17th c. Eng. tacite (1605), tacit (1628), L. tacit- p.p. stem of tacēre, F. tacite.]
1. Tacit, not expressed, inferred, implicit. Also tacit relocation see Relocatio(u)n n.a1650 Row 251.
This tacite approveing of these commissioners, men so highlie guiltie, … argues a great decay of zeall, and courage 1669 Jus Populi 123.
If in proper monarchies, there be such covenants and compacts tacite or expresse, which [etc.] 1681 Fountainhall Decis. I 143.
The King's tacite hypotheck in the goods of all those that uplift his revenue, making him preferable to all other creditors 1681 Stair Inst. i xii § 12.
A tacit mandate, is that which is inferred by signs, and is not expressed by words; as he who is present and suffereth another to manage his affairs without contradiction gives thereby a tacit mandate 1681 Stair Inst. ii ix § 36.
Tacks are taken away by tacit and implied renunciation 1704 Rothesay Par. Rec. 181.
The minister did represent to the Session that seing now the tacite reason for which the money collected here the time of the communion … was appointed to be kept by him was now removed therfore the Session wold [etc.]
b. ? Stillborn.1669 Anal. Scot. II 397.
Thair is ane great presumption of the man … beating hir, and not ca[lling] the assistance of women quhich might have bein hade; and therfor findis them pari passu in guilt of burieing ane tacite child, and thairfore they have … fand them guiltie of the hudge presumption of murder
2. adv. Tacitly, by implication.1570 Canongate Ct. Bk. 267.
The persewar ressavand the samin agane and being continuallie sensyne in his possessioun hes tacite past fra his actioun of spuilye 1593 Montg. Suppl. 333.
Ane allegit commissioun of ambassadrie … quhilk tacite importis, as the defendar wald meane, ane gracious restitutioun 1610 Misc. Hist. Soc. II 154.
Confessing either expresslie or at least tacite that [etc.] a1633 Hope Major Pract. II 91.
The partie ejected, be entering to the laboureing … of the lands efter the ejectione, is understood tacite to have renunced all action of ejection
