| 释义 |
‖ tacenda, n. pl.|təˈsɛndə|
[L., gerundive neut. pl. of tacēre: see next.]
Things to be passed over in silence; matters not to be mentioned.
1843Carlyle Past & Pr. ii. x. 125 Willelmus Sacrista, and his bibations and tacenda are..softly yet irrevocably put an end to. 1870S. H. Hodgson Theory of Practice I. ii. 217 A greater number of things are classed among tacenda... The French term pudeur seems exactly to express the feeling which is called out painfully or wounded by an lifting of the veil of the tacenda. 1883Blackw. Mag. Feb. 274 Topics..regarded as tacenda by society. |