tactual

adjective

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Of, or relating to the sense of touch.
“[…] how doth Psyche heare or see That hath nor eyes nor eares? She sees more clear Then we that see but secundarily. We see at distance by a circular Diffusion of that spright of this great sphere Of th’Universe: Her sight is tactuall. The sunne and all the starres that do appear She feels them in herself […]”
“[…] the later sovereigns of England have not been tactual healers, and the disease once honored with the name “king’s evil” now bears the humbler one of “scrofula” […]”