ˈtasə̇t, usu -ə̇d.+V adjective
Etymology: French or Latin; French tacite, from Latin tacitus silent, from past participle of tacēre to be silent, to pass over in silence; akin to Old Saxon thagon, thagian to be silent, Old High German dagēn, Old Norse thegja, Gothic thahan to be silent, and perhaps to Welsh tagu to choke, Old Irish tachtaid he chokes
1.
a. archaic : not speaking : silent
a man rather tacit than discursive — Thomas Carlyle
b. : expressed or carried on without words or speech : unspoken , wordless
the blush was a tacit answer — Bram Stoker
wooed her with tacit patient worship — George Eliot
occasioned tacit rejoicing among the men — A.J.Liebling
2.
a. : implied or indicated but not actually expressed : implicit
tacit consent
a tacit assumption
a tacit warning
notions … some tacit , some openly expressed — Fred Rodell
enjoys the tacit support … of the inhabitants — New Statesman & Nation
b.
(1) : arising without express contract or agreement — compare conventional 1a
(2) : arising by operation of law
a tacit mortgage
— compare legal