rare. [f. L. tact-, ppl. stem of tangĕre to touch + -IC; in sense 2 akin to TACT 4.]
1. Of, belonging or relating to touch; tactual.
1625. Jackson, Creed, V. xii. § 3. Touch is but an apprehension or feeling of its own tactick qualities being actually moved by other of the same kind.
1886. T. Arnold, in Amer. Ann. Deaf & Dumb, April, 125. Exercises to increase the tactic sensibility.
† 2. Of or pertaining to the beating of time: cf. TACT sb. 4. Tactic song (absol. tactic), a song to keep rowers in time.
1779. Forrest, Voy. N. Guinea, 25. I found Tuan Hadjee in high spirits, cheering up the rowers with a certain Tactic song, to which a man beat time with two brass timbrels. Ibid., 303. In rowing … they have always a song as a kind of tactic, and beat on two brass timbrels to keep time.
