Tacitly

adv. [f. TACIT a. + -LY².]

  1.  Without speaking; silently; quietly.

1643.  Prynne, Rome’s Master-Piece (ed. 2), 24. The secular Iesuites have bought all this street, and have reduced it into a quadrangle, where a Iesuiticall Colledge is tacitly built.

1751.  Earl Orrery, Remarks Swift (1752), 88. Here a reflection naturally occurs, which … leads me tacitly to admire, and confess the ways of Providence.

1866.  Geo. Eliot, F. Holt, i. To be no longer tacitly pitied by her neighbours for her lack of money.

  2.  Without stating or expressing it; by implication: cf. TACIT a. 2.

1635.  Earl Strafford, Lett. (1739), I. 471. Not tacitely or by way of Consequence, but even in express and binding Terms.

1660.  Stanley, Hist. Philos., III. I. 30. He tacitely implyed that the rest of mankind were but beasts.

1735.  Berkeley, Free-think. in Math., § 21. There are certain points tacitly admitted by mathematicians.

1825.  McCulloch, Pol. Econ. II. iv. 179. If, as M. Sismondi has tacitly assumed, the machines cost nothing.