ppl. a. [UN-1 5 d, 10.]
1. Not touching (something).
1602. W. Basse, Three Past. Elegies, i. (1893), 46. My flocks … saw their maisters eie Perus’d in things vntutching their estate.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., VII. 327. Their flight will bee the length of a Cables Rope, vntouching Water.
1846. Mangan, Poems (1903), 6. Untouching the earth I then sped forth To Inver-lough.
b. Not having contact.
a. 1812. J. Grahame, Poems (1827), 88. Like that untouching cincture which enzones The globe of Saturn.
2. Having no effect upon the feelings; unaffecting.
1745. Eliza Heywood, Female Spect., No. 10. II. 204. All the Protestations they made … were … unfelt by themselves, and equally untouching to those they were address’d.
