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tacit
English
Etymology
Borrowed from late Middle French tacite, or from Latin tacitus (“that is passed over in silence, done without words, assumed as a matter of course, silent”), from tacere (“to be silent”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tæs?t/
- Rhymes: -æs?t
- Homophones: tacet, tasset
Adjective
tacit (comparative more tacit, superlative most tacit)
- Expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.
- tacit consent : consent by silence, or by not raising an objection
- 1983, Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image, page 62:
- He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer.
- 2004, Developing Democracy in Europe: An Analytical Summary (Lawrence Pratchett, Vivien Lowndes; ?ISBN:
- […] disengagement represents a tacit rejection of governing institutions and processes, especially among young people, […]
- (logic) Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.
Derived terms
- tacitly
- tacitness
Related terms
- tacet
- taciturn
- taciturnity
- taciturnly
Translations
Further reading
- tacit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- tacit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- tacit at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Attic, attic, ticat
Romanian
Etymology
From French tacite, from Latin tacitus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta?t??it/
Adjective
tacit m or n (feminine singular tacit?, masculine plural taci?i, feminine and neuter plural tacite)
- unspoken
Declension
Further reading
- tacit in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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prevaricate
English
Alternative forms
- prævaricate (archaic)
Etymology
From the participle stem of Latin praev?ric?r? (“to walk crookedly, to play a false or double part”), from prae- + v?ric?re (“to stand with feet apart, straddle”), from v?rus (“deviating from the right line, bent outwards, different”), from Proto-Indo-European *w?- (“to bend apart”) (the root of various).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p???va??ke?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /p???væ??ke?t/, /p???v???ke?t/
Verb
prevaricate (third-person singular simple present prevaricates, present participle prevaricating, simple past and past participle prevaricated)
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).
- (intransitive) To shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to deviate from the truth; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous.
- The people saw the politician prevaricate every day.
- (intransitive, law) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
- (law, Britain) To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- prevaricatest
- prevarication
- prevaricator
Translations
See also
- lie
Italian
Verb
prevaricate
- inflection of prevaricare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
- feminine plural of prevaricato
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