Definition of "tacit" []

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

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The following is a decisive, though what we call a tacit reference to"
• "A dying LBJ retired to Texas and let his hair grow long, some say in tacit allegiance to the anti-war protesters who once marched outside his White House."
• "Are they all just sitting on their hands in tacit alliance with the Jihadist ideas?"