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▪ I. tactic, n.1|ˈtæktɪk|
[ad. 17th c. L. tactic-a, a. Gr. τακτική (sc. τέχνη) the art of arrangement or tactics, fem. of τακτικός, tactic a.1, = F. (la) tactique (sometimes used in Eng.). In sense 2, ad. Gr. τακτικός (sc. ἀνήρ) tactician.]
1. A system of tactics; = tactics 1.
[1570J. Dee Math. Pref. a iv b margin, The difference betwene Stratarithmetrie and Tactice [printed Tacticie]. ]
1766Misc. in Ann. Reg. 171/2 What is commonly called Tactick, or the formation of battalions. 1801in Nicolas Disp. Nelson (1845) IV. 303 He alluded..to the total want of tactique among the Northern Fleets. 1838–42Arnold Hist. Rome II. xxix. 143 The arms and tactic of both armies were precisely similar.
b. A piece of military tactics.
1868Freeman Norm. Conq. II. ix. 389 Ralph required his men to practise an unusual and foreign tactic.
c. transf. and fig.
1791Burke App. Whigs Wks. VI. 206 By a divine tactick. 1817Sporting Mag. L. 8 Great coquettes have another tactic. 1860M. Pattison in Ess. & Rev. 314 Lord Chesterfield, seeing what advantage the High-church party derived from this tactic, endeavoured to turn it against them.
†2. A tactician. Obs.
1638Junius Paint. Ancients 128 A Tactike shall never know how to set his men in aray, unlesse he doe first trie the case by designe. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. ii. (1642) 81 Removes, ambulante exercitu, as Tacticks phrase it.
3. Math. (See quots.)
1861Sylvester in Phil. Mag. 374, I have given the general name of Tactic to the third pure mathematical science, of which order is the proper sphere, as are number and space of the other two. 1864Cayley Math. Papers V. 294 The two great divisions of Algebra are Tactic and Logistic. 1883Ibid. XI. 433 We have a large enough subject, including the partition of numbers, which Sylvester has called Tactic.
▪ II. tactic, a.1|ˈtæktɪk|
[ad. mod.L. tactic-us (17th c.), a. Gr. τακτικός of arrangement or tactics, f. τακτός ordered, vbl. adj. of τάσσειν to set in order. Cf. F. tactique (1690 in Furetière).]
†1. Of or pertaining to military (or naval) tactics; = tactical a. 1. Obs.
1604Edmonds Observ. Cæsar's Comm. ii. 129 The maner of our moderne training, or tacticke practise. 1635Davenant Madagascar (1638) 5 Men so exact, In Tactick Arts, both to designe and act. 1652C. B. Stapylton Herodian 141 Skilfull in both parts of War, Tactick and Stratagematick. 1775Chron. in Ann. Reg. 107/2 To..follow the tactick rules of the other European powers. 1831Campbell Power Russia vii, The Russ will woo..All murder's tactic arts.
2. Of or pertaining to arrangement or order.
1811–31Bentham Logic Wks. 1843 VIII. 218/2 In the works of Aristotle..the tactic was scarcely considered in any other light than that of an instrument employed in carrying on the disputatious branch. 1871Sir W. Thomson in Daily News 3 May, Visible or invisible..according to circumstances, not only of density, degree of illumination, and nearness, but also of tactic arrangement, as of a flock of birds. 1909J. W. Jenkinson Experim. Embryol. 272 Herbst classifies organic reactions to stimuli as either directive or formative. The former are..tactic when the response is some locomotion of a freer body.
3. Linguistics. Of or pertaining to taxemes, their arrangement or order. Cf. tactics 3.
1933L. Bloomfield Language x. 166 Combinations of taxemes, or, quite frequently, single taxemes, occur as conventional grammatical arrangements, tactic forms. 1962E. F. Hayden et al. Resonance Theory for Linguistics iii. 24 Like beads on a string, each entity in phonotactics has a distinct Form, since no two beads can occur in the same place on the string. This is the tactic form, i.e. the structural form in the sequence. 1966S. M. Lamb Outl. Stratificational Gram. 5 This process of isolating recurrent partial similarities is the basis of tactic analysis. Ibid. 54 Thus the analysis (un true) (ly) fits the simplest tactic description. Ibid. 58 The description of a stratal system is probably most conveniently presented in two parts: the tactic description and the realizational description. 1968P. M. Postal Aspects Phonol. Theory viii. 198 There are four distinct strata, each of which is an independent system with its own generative rules (tactic rules)... The four current properly linguistic strata are..the sememic, the lexemic, the morphemic, and the phonemic. It is apparently the function of the tactic rules on a particular stratum X to generate both the class of X-emes and the possible combinations of X-emes. 1969Language XLV. 303 This tactic fact is that..the low vowels /e a o/ can occur only if accompanied by stress; therefore the only unstressed vowels are /i ə u/.
▪ III. ˈtactic, a.2 (n.2) rare.
[f. L. tact-, ppl. stem of tangĕre to touch + -ic; in sense 2 akin to tact 4.]
1. Of, belonging or relating to touch; tactual.
1625Jackson Creed v. xii. §3 Touch is but an apprehension or feeling of its own tactick qualities being actually moved by other of the same kind. 1886T. Arnold in Amer. Ann. Deaf & Dumb Apr. 125 Exercises to increase the tactic sensibility.
†2. Of or pertaining to the beating of time: cf. tact n. 4. tactic song (absol. tactic), a song to keep rowers in time.
1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 25, I found Tuan Hadjee in high spirits, cheering up the rowers with a certain Tactic song, to which a man beat time with two brass timbrels. Ibid. 303 In rowing..they have always a song as a kind of tactic, and beat on two brass timbrels to keep time. |