a. Heb. Gram. Obs. rare. [f. Heb. [Hebrew] taste, discernment, judgment, in later Heb. explanation, meaning, and then the ordinary word for accentual mark (in reference to the functions of the Heb. accents) + -ICAL. (The Heb. ע is here represented by gh: cf. Gaza, Gomorrah.)] Of or pertaining to the Hebrew written accents as determining the syntactical structure and hence the meaning of passages (as understood by the Masoretes).
1698. W. Cross (title), The Taghmical Art: or the Art of Expounding Scripture By the Points usually called Accents, But are really Tactical.
1730. T. Boston, Mem., x. (ed. Morrison), 301. What Mr. Cross calls the Taghmical Art; viz. the sacred stigmatology or accentuation of the Hebrew Bible.
1859. Thulia S. Henderson, Mem. E. Henderson, iii. 118–9, note. The first dawning of the idea broke in upon him when reading Cross’s Taghmical Art.
