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Tacitean, a.|ˈtæsɪtiːən|
[f. the name of the Roman historian Tacitus (c 54–117): see -an.]
Pertaining to Tacitus, or resembling his pregnant sententious style. So ˈTacitist, a student or follower of Tacitus; ˈTacitize v., intr. to write in the style of Tacitus.
1890Lowell Milton's Areop. Lat. Lit. Ess. (1891) 101 He [Milton] is never weary of insisting on the *Tacitean distinction between liberty and license. 1907Athenæum 7 Sept. 265/3 Accurate scholarship, especially in matters of Tacitean diction.
1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. xxiii. (1675) 24 He might like a *Tacitist have written the Civil Wars of Flanders.
1833Roscoe tr. Pellico's Ten Years' Imprisonm. xxxvi, With all my admiration for the genius of Tacitus, I had never much faith in the justice of *tacitising as he does. |