[ad. L. tactiōn-em, n. of action from tangĕre to touch. Cf. F. taction (17th c.).] The action of touching; contact.
1623. Cockeram, Taction, a touching.
1668. Phil. Trans., III. 689. The First Part of it handles the Taction of Circles.
1726. Swift, Gulliver, III. ii. They neither can speak nor attend to the discourses of others, without being roused by some external taction upon the organs of speech and hearing.
1866. Shuckard, Brit. Bees, 346. It is possibly from some taction of this instrument that she discerns the sizes of the eggs.
