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▪ I. touching, vbl. n.|ˈtʌtʃɪŋ|
[f. touch v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb touch.
1. a. The action, or an act, of feeling something with the hand, etc.; the fact or state of being contiguous; touch, contact; a touch; spec. for the ‘king's evil’ (quot. 1704).
c1290St. Lucy 33 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 102 Þoruȝ touchingue of seinte Agace toumbe þouȝ schalt beo hol a-non. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1906) 58 Leude touchinge and handelyng sterithe and chafithe the flesshe. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. xix. (1634) 723 Some he healed with touchings, other some with his word. a1657Sir W. Mure Misc. Poems xi. 6 Hands, forbeare to tuich Oght ȝor tuiching can bewitch! 1704Lond. Gaz. No. 4020/4 Her Majesty thinking it necessary to discontinue Touching for this Season. 1842Tennyson Locksley Hall 38 Our spirits rush'd together at the touching of the lips.
†b. The sense of touch. Obs.
c1460Wisdom 1105 in Macro Plays 72 By towchynge, I felte peyne smerte. 1500–20Dunbar Poems ix. 12 My wittis fyve,—In hering, seing, gusting, twiching, and smelling. 1656Stanley Hist. Philos. v. (1701) 189/1 The sense of Touching. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) II. 179 The closer senses, if I may so call them, such as smelling, tasting, and touching, are..as simple as they are limited.
c. In various spec. senses: see the verb; also with up: see touch v. 34 c.
1671Milton P.R. ii. 370 No interdict Defends the touching of these viands pure. 1705Derham in Phil. Trans. XXV. 2143 This way of Touching [with a magnet]. 1833T. Hook Parson's Dau. iii. xii, The only difference between the passages is the frequency of touching in the one case. 1908H. B. Morse Trade Chinese Emp. 148 A lot of sixty [silver ingots] of which I saw the weighing and touching. 1973C. Mullard Black Britain vii. 87 Both employees had for some months been practising a mild form of homosexuality—‘touching up’. 1980J. Scott Gospel Lamb iii. 51 Touchings-up were frequent—the girls seemed as eager as the boys.
d. In reference to painting, or artistic or other work; also with up: see touch v. 10, 34 a.
1781Sir J. Reynolds Journ. Flanders, etc. Wks. 1797 II. 87 [Tenier's] manner of touching, or what we call handling, has perhaps never been equalled. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 465 The several touchings and retouchings requisite. 1902Athenæum 26 Apr. 538/3 The touchings-up of the Gavotte were in the worst possible taste. 1936Burlington Mag. May 208/1 The artist's later touching-up. 1957Practical Wireless XXXIII. 558/1 ‘Look Back to Lyttleton’ was a novel by Caryl Brahms, which had been laid aside for touching up and taken out as suitable material for a radio play.
e. slang. Getting hold of money, as by theft, or pocket-picking; also bribery (? obs.): see touch v. 15, 16.
1726C. D'Anvers Craftsman No. 32 (ed. 3) 299 If once he gives himself up to touching..I give him over as incurable. 1896A. Morrison Child of the Jago 231 It would never do to go home without touching.
2. In various fig. senses: Mention, treatment or discussion; affecting or injuring; † charging, accusation, etc.
a1400Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) i. ii, Made bi the presence and the touchyng of a good angell. 1410in Proc. Privy Council (1834) I. 326 And yf by that mocioun and touchyngge the forseide Emonde may fele the forseide Duc be ther of righte desirous. 1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons Ded. 13 Is no other but a blaspheming and offending of God in the highest degree, a touching of the honour of the Princes. a1625Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 185 The touching of him with some hainous crime. 1711Addison Spect. No. 34 ⁋6 To commend my Prudence in not touching upon the Army.
†3. Building. (pl.) Projections from the foundations of a building, from which those of the adjoining building are begun. Obs.
1663Gerbier Counsel 50 To cause the foundation of the intended building to be generally laid, without leaving any toutchings.
4. attrib., as touching-distance; touching-distant adj. (poet.); touching-stuff, in engraving, a composition of cork ashes, ivory-black, gall, and treacle, used for touching up the dark parts of a plate (Cent. Dict.).
1881W. Whitman Leaves of Grass (new ed.) 352 Thy touching-distant beams. 1884J. Tait Mind in Matter (1892) 314 ‘Criticism’ has never reached nearer than touching-distance to the extreme outworks of divine truth.
▪ II. ˈtouching, ppl. a.
Forms: see touch v.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That touches: in various senses of the verb.
1. lit.: chiefly of things: Coming into, or being in contact.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 113 Because this touching draught is more broken in some, and more tight in others. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. s.v. Riding-part, The joint part of a scissors-blade which forms the touching portion back of the rivet.
2. fig. That touches the feelings or emotions; such as to excite tender feeling or sympathy; affecting, pathetic. (The usual sense.)
In quot. 1508, ? ‘sharp’, satirical or reproachful.
1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 303, I wald ryght tuichand in talk be. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. iv. iii. 151 O insupportable, and touching losse! 1742Young Nt. Th. iii. 240 If not forgot my touching tale. 1823Scott Peveril xiii, So touching, also, in her simplicity and purity of thought. 1870Huxley Lay Serm. iii. (1874) 30 A touching faith in the efficacy of acts of parliament.
▪ III. ˈtouching, prep. Now somewhat arch.
Forms: see touch v.; also 4 -end(e, 4, 5 Sc. -and(e.
[The pres. pple. of touch v. used prepositionally; cf. concerning prep. Prob. after F. touchant, used in the same way: see also touchant.]
1. (introd.) Where touching is in concord with a prec. n. or pron., and may be rendered ‘that refers or relates to’ (touch v. 18, 20). In later use passing into 2. (Cf. concerning prep. 1.)
c1350Will. Palerne 1383 For þe tyding þat þei told touchend hire fader. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 10 The visioun touchand the first tyme of the soroufull persecucioun. 1542Hen. VIII in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 221 Certeine thinges..towching vs and..our Realme. 1621H. Elsing Debates Ho. Lords (Camden) 129 There was debate touching Sir Gyles Mompesson. 1709–10Steele Tatler No. 145 ⁋1 A late Request..touching the Care of a young Daughter. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. I. iv. 196 note, The dealings of the Assembly touching the abdication of Rolf.
2. Without concord, becoming entirely prepositional: In reference or relation to; as to, respecting, regarding; in the way of mentioning or treating of; concerning, about. (Cf. concerning prep. 2.)
c1375Cursor M. 23011 (Fairf.) Saint austin sais touchand [C., G. enent, T. of] þat day Is nane can goddis consail say. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxiii. 107 Wonder sutell of witte towchand any thing þat þai will do. 1513Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 271 Twichand the lattyr buke of Dan Virgill. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 49 The composition of the head touching the bones thereof. 1611Bible Transl. Pref. 5 This may suffice touching the Greeke translations of the old Testament. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 17 Apr., The master of the company being sent for, and examined touching the said Wilson. 1855Dickens Dorrit ii. xxviii, Touching the bargain, your..mother was a little too calm.
3. Preceded by as. (Cf. concerning prep. 3.)
c1386Chaucer Frankl. T. 685 Mo than a thousand stories..Koude I now telle as touchynge this mateere. 1428Munim. de Melros (Bann. Cl.) 521 As twichand þe plew of land in þe husbandry..þe assis saide it nedit na departisoun. a1533Ld. Berners Huon lix. 203 What counsell wyl ye geue me as touchyng y⊇ admyrall? 1601Holland Pliny x. xxxii. I. 287 As touching the Guls or Sea-cobs, they build in rockes. 1780M. Madan Thelyphthora (1781) I. 105 The exceeding ignorance of mankind as touching the acts and dispensations of that infinitely wise Being. 1890Freeman in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. (1895) II. 420 Your facts are very valuable, specially as touching your own stay in Crete.
†4. Followed by of or to (and mostly preceded by as as in 3), forming a prepositional phr. Obs.
as touching for in Paston Lett. is app. a confusion between as touching and as for.
1390Gower Conf. I. 307 Now tell me forth if ther be more As touchende unto Wraththes lore. Ibid. III. 174 And as touchende of this bataille, Thou schalt noght of the sothe faile. 1417–19Paston Lett. I. 10 As towchyng to the derth of vytayles withyn thys..Cytee. 1450Ibid. 161 As towchyng for tydyngs, I can none. 1523[Coverdale] Old God & New (1534) P j, Speake as towchyng to y⊇ workes of theym selues. |