tactual
Adjective
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Adjective
tactual
- Of, or relating to the sense of touch.
- 1642, Henry More, Psychodia Platonica, 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, The Devil's Dictionary, New York: Doubleday, Page, p. 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, The World I Live In, New York: The Century Co., Chapter 1, p. 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, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus, Chapter 3,
- ‘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.’
- 1642, Henry More, Psychodia Platonica, Cambridge, Book 3, p. 61,
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