tactual
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- tactuall (obsolete, rare)
Adjective
[edit]tactual (comparative more tactual, superlative most tactual)
- Of, or relating to the sense of touch.
- 1642, Henry More, Psychodia Platonica[1], Cambridge, Book 3, p. 61:
- […] how doth Psyche heare or see
That hath nor eyes nor eares? She sees more clear
Then we that see but secundarily.
We see at distance by a circular
Diffusion of that spright of this great sphere
Of th’Universe: Her sight is tactuall.
The sunne and all the starres that do appear
She feels them in herself […]
- 1906, Ambrose Bierce, “king's evil”, in The Cynic’s Word Book, London: Arthur F. Bird […], →OCLC, page 211:
- […] the later sovereigns of England have not been tactual healers, and the disease once honored with the name “king’s evil” now bears the humbler one of “scrofula” […]
- 1908, Helen Keller, chapter 1, in The World I Live In,[2], New York: The Century Co., page 8:
- My world is built of touch-sensations, devoid of physical color and sound […] . Every object is associated in my mind with tactual qualities which, combined in countless ways, give me a sense of power, of beauty, or of incongruity: for with my hands I can feel the comic as well as the beautiful in the outward appearance of things.
- 1932, Aldous Huxley, chapter 3, in Brave New World[3], London: Chatto & Windus:
- ‘Going to the Feelies this evening, Henry?’ enquired the Assistant Predestinator. ‘I hear the new one at the Alhambra is first-rate. There’s a love scene on a bearskin rug; they say it’s marvellous. Every hair of the bear reproduced. The most amazing tactual effects.’
Synonyms
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[edit]Of, or relating to the sense of touch
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