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tacitly, adv.|ˈtæsɪtlɪ|
[f. tacit a. + -ly2.]
1. Without speaking; silently; quietly.
1643Prynne Rome's Master-Piece (ed. 2) 24 The secular Iesuites have bought all this street, and have reduced it into a quadrangle, where a Iesuiticall Colledge is tacitly built. 1751Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 88 Here a reflection naturally occurs, which..leads me tacitly to admire, and confess the ways of Providence. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt i, To be no longer tacitly pitied by her neighbours for her lack of money.
2. Without stating or expressing it; by implication: cf. tacit a. 2.
1635Earl of Strafford Lett. (1739) I. 471 Not tacitely or by way of Consequence, but even in express and binding Terms. 1660Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 30 He tacitely implyed that the rest of mankind were but beasts. 1735Berkeley Free-think. in Math. §21 There are certain points tacitly admitted by mathematicians. 1825McCulloch Pol. Econ. ii. iv. 179 If, as M. Sismondi has tacitly assumed, the machines cost nothing. |