3. Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception
or discernment; 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 surpassed the tact of ours.
Macaulay.
Tac"ta*ble (?), a. Capable of being touched; tangible. [R.] "They
[women] being created to be both tractable and tactable." Massinger.
{ Tac"tic (?), Tac"tic*al (?), } a. [Gr. &?;. See tactics.] Of or
pertaining to the art of military and naval tactics. — Tac"tic*al*ly,
adv.
Tac"tic (?), n. See Tactics.
Tac*ti"cian (?), n. [Cf. F. tacticien.] One versed in tactics; hence, a
skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager.
Tac"tics (?), n. [Gr. &?;, pl., and &?; (sc. &?;, sing., fr. &?; fit
for ordering or arranging, fr. &?;, &?;, to put in order, to arrange:
cf. F. tactique.] 1. The science and art of disposing military and
naval forces in order for battle, and performing military and naval
evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of
battles, and elementary tactics, or the tactics of instruction.