Usage examples for tacit:

• He did not ask him how Miss Leighton was getting on; but Wetmore launched out, with Alma for a tacit text, on the futility of women generally going in for art. "A Hazard of New Fortunes" – William Dean Howells

• Meanwhile, between him and his mother a certain tacit understanding began to make itself felt. "The Marriage of William Ashe" – Mrs. Humphry Ward

• The Italians, their hereditary foes, are being driven back, and on the Russian front there seems to be a sort of tacit truce- no fighting and visiting in trenches, etc. "Face to Face with Kaiserism" – James W. Gerard

• It would have been no more than natural had the question of the property been, by tacit agreement, always kept out of sight between the two young men. "Ralph the Heir" – Anthony Trollope