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† aˈttinge, v. Obs.
[ad. L. attingĕre to touch on, f. at- = ad- to + tangĕre to touch. Cf. attain, in origin the same word.]
1. To touch upon, come in contact with.
1656Blount Glossogr., Attinge, to touch lightly or softly; to mention or handle briefly, to reach to, to arrive or come to. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 534 It helps and delights all parts it attinges. 1666J. Smith Old Age (ed. 2) 78 Because they [the teeth] might the better attinge one anothers bodies. 1742in Bailey [from Blount].
2. To touch in relationship.
a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. iv. (1677) 202 The Con⁓sanguinity standing betwixt Bothwell and his wife..they mutually attinging others in the fourth degree.
3. To affect, influence.
1640Bp. Reynolds Of Passions xxxii. (1826) VI. 247 The pollution of the soul..attinging the ultimate disposition of the Body. |