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touched, ppl. a.|tʌtʃt|
Also 7–8 toucht.
[f. touch v. + -ed1.]
a. In various senses corresponding to those of touch v.
In quot. a 1625, tried, proved (sense 8); in quot. 1667, magnetized (sense 6 c); in quot. 1660 absol. from sense 2 b.
touched gold, the touch-piece given by the sovereign when he touched for the ‘king's evil’, supposed to retain a healing virtue. touched proof, a ‘proof’ from an engraved or etched plate approaching completion, submitted to the artist of the picture copied, for his approval or criticism.
a1400Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. ii, It was impossyble goddis sone to be borne of towchyd woman. a1586Sidney Arcadia (1622) 461 To repay the touched honour of her house. a1625Fletcher Women Pleased ii. i, Ye shall be sure I am a touch'd friend. 1660Evelyn Diary 6 July, The other Chaplaine.., having Angel gold strung on white ribbon on his arme, delivers them one by one to his Majestie, who puts them about the necks of the touched as they passe. 1667H. Oldenburg in Phil. Trans. II. 423 Whether touched Needles move otherwise, when the Veins of Iron do not lie North and South. 1715E. Betts 1 Mar. in The Betts of Wortham xvi. (1912) 167 My mother lent Coz Mary Betts ye piece of toucht gold with ye Britaine and this motto [etc.]. 1831J. Constable Let. 13 Apr. (1966) IV. 348, I send you the twelve pounds, and a touched proof of the Heath. 1861Thornbury Turner I. 408 Turner was always quarrelling with the engravers about his touched proofs. He wanted every proof on which he had written directions to be returned.
b. With adv., as touched-up: see touch v. 34.
1875tr. Vogel's Chem. Light vi. 48 A single touched-up negative gave hundreds of unexceptionable impressions.
Hence ˈtouchedness (in quot., state of being mentally ‘touched’, slight insanity).
1883F. W. Robinson Hands of Justice ii. v, Clambering out of the window in the middle of the night was a striking example of his ‘touchedness’. |