a. rare. [ad. L. type contactuāl-is, f. contactu-s CONTACT.] Of or relating to contact.
1837. Penny Cycl., VII. 483/1. Contagion may therefore be said to be immediate or mediate, contactual or remote.
Hence Contactually adv.
1857. W. Boyd, Island of Montreal. Is it not deeply, broadly, and contactually embraced on all sides by the waters of the Ottawa?
1889. G. D. Boardman, The Kingdom, 224. Evil does exist in the Kingdom of God or the Messianic dispensation; and in this respect is like leaven, for it works silently, contactually, pervasively, assimilatively, leavening the whole mass.
