tactual

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He finds no difficulty in analyzing it into color sensations and tactual sensations; and yet he is aware of so much more in it.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

The tactual succession from the great Bishop of New Zealand has therefore passed to the present episcopate only through two of the missionaries who were at work in the country before his arrival.

From A History of the English Church in New Zealand by Purchas, H. T. (Henry Thomas)

Of these five, vision is cognition of every kind of visual, tactual, and other sensible objects, though imperceptible, intercepted, or remote.

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava

The elephant is the most sagacious of quadrupeds — its tactual range and skill, and the consequent multiplication of experiences, which it owes to its wonderfully adaptable trunk, being the basis of its sagacity.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

Did the beard really exist, or was it only a case of tactual and visual sensations?

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille