tactionn.
/ˈtakʃən/ The action of touching; contact.
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touchingc1300
taking1340
toucha1387
tastea1400
atouchment1483
tuckingc1485
tacture1598
taction1623
contaction1628
tactation1688
tig1721
tact1801
skinship1966
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Taction, a touching.
1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 689 The First Part of it handles the Taction of Circles.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. ii. 17 They neither can speak, nor attend to the Discourses of others, without being rouzed by some external Taction upon the Organs of Speech and Hearing.
1866 W. E. Shuckard Brit. Bees 346 It is possibly from some taction of this instrument that she discerns the sizes of the eggs.
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