|tasə|tēən, taˈsid.ē- adjective
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: from Cornelius Tacitus died ab A.D.117 Roman statesman and historian + English -ean
: of or relating to the historian Tacitus or resembling his style or writings (as in terseness or studied lack of parallelism)
his discourse … was couched on this occasion in Tacitean brevity — Norman Douglas