Definition of "tactus" [tactus]

• The sense of touch; taction. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "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"
• "Catullus XI ends: nec meum respectet, ut ante, amorem, qui illius culpa cecidit velut prati ultimi flos, praetereunte postquam tactus aratrost."
• "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."