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tactual, a.|ˈtæktjuːəl|
[f. L. tactu-s touch + -al1: cf. visual.]
Of or pertaining to touch; of the nature of or due to touch.
1642H. More Song Soul ii. iii. i. xxi, Her sight is tactuall, The sunne and all the starres that do appear She feels them in herself. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §36. 549 A kind of Tactual Union..with the Centre of the Universe. 1833Carlyle Misc. Ess., Cagliostro (1872) V. 68 Thy existence is wholly an Illusion and optical and tactual Phantasm. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sc. (1879) II. ix. 185 In the lowest organisms we have a kind of tactual sense diffused over the entire body.
Hence tactuˈality, tactual quality; ˈtactually adv., in a tactual manner or way.
1858W. R. Pirie Inq. Hum. Mind vii. 398 It is not improbable that we have even a sense of tactuality, if we may so speak, in the secondary sensations. 1855H. Spencer Psychol. (1872) I. iii. vi. 332 When the combined appliances of touch and muscular sense are fully developed..an immense variety of textures can be known tactually. |