Meanings
- not comparableobsoleteCapable of being touched; tangible.
[T]he decree, that women / Should not neglect the service of their lovers, / But pay them from the exchequer they were born with, / Was good and laudable; they being created / To be both tractable and tactable, / When they are useful: […]
1624 November 3 (first performance), Philip Massinger, “The Parliament of Love”, in W[illiam] Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger, […], volume II, London: […] G[eorge] and W[illiam] Nicol; […] by W[illiam] Bulmer and Co. […], published 1805, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 249
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