Tâct, n.
n. [Lat. tactus, from tangere, tactum, to touch; Fr. tact, Sp. tacto, It. tatto.] 1. Touch; feeling. [Rare.]
Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as well as sight, and assume corporeality as well as form? Southey.
Sense 2. Hence, sometimes, the stroke in beating time in music.
Sense 3. Peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.
He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to those of Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a tact and wariness worthy of Mazarin. Macaulay.
A tact which surpassed the tact of her sex as much as the tact of her sex surpasses the tact of ours. Macaulay.