tactual

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There would be few instances in his limited experience more marked of invariable antecedence and consequence than this,—that the muscular sensation would sooner or later be followed by a tactual one.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various

The senses are nascent, the basis of all of them being that simple tactual sense which the sage Democritus recognised 2,300 years ago as their common progenitor.

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

There are tactual vibrations which do not belong to skin-touch.

From The World I Live In by Keller, Helen

Mach indeed claims to distinguish physiological Space, geometrical Space, visual Space, tactual Space as all different and yet apparently harmoniously blended in our Experience.

From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander

The slow change in the position of the tactual sensations evidently produces a rather strong influence on the equilibrium of nervous impulses, and here again vasomotor reflexes seem to arise easily.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo