tactable

English

Adjective

tactable (not comparable)

(obsolete) Capable of being touched; tangible.
- 1624 November 3 (first performance), Philip Massinger, “The Parliament of Love”, in W[illiam] Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger, […], volume II, London: […] G[eorge] and W[illiam] Nicol; […] by W[illiam] Bulmer and Co. […], published 1805, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 249:
  [T]he decree, that women / Should not neglect the service of their lovers, / But pay them from the exchequer they were born with, / Was good and laudable; they being created / To be both tractable and tactable, / When they are useful: […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tactable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)