Obs. [ad. L. type *tactūra, f. tact-, ppl. stem of tangĕre to touch: see -URE.] Touch, taction, contact.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 9 b/1. Yet … with the tacture, or the eyes, we can not espye the fissure or rente.
1650. T. Bayly, Herba Parietis, 122. Berontus tooke his Amarissa by the hand, whose sprightly behaviour answered the tacture, with like affection.
1727. Earbery, trans. Burnet’s St. Dead, I. 15. The Soul has no Manner of Action either in itself or externally, by Tacture or Impulse, but what proceeds from the force of Thinking.
