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unˈtouched, ppl. a.
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1. a. Not touched with the hand (finger, foot, etc.): not handled or treated by hand, etc.
1382Wyclif 2 Kings xxiii. 18 The citeȝeens..vntouchid laften the boonys of hym. c1440Pallad. on Husb. vi. 4 Now euery grayne almeest hath floures swete; Vntouched now the tilman let hem growe. 1502W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione i. xiii. (1893) 162 A bell untouchyd is not perfytely knowen whether it be hole..or dyscrased. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii xvi, I pray you..to let my maides take my body untouched by you. 1673[R. Leigh] Transp. Reh. 43 Romances are thumb'd more than.. Gondibert is Dogs-ear'd, while the Rabbies are untoucht. 1697Dryden æneis x. 1173 Untouched thy arms, untaken be thy sword. 1725Pope Odyssey ii 396 Untouch'd and sacred may these vessels stand Till great Ulysses views his native land. 1801Scott Glenfinlas xxxviii, Untouch'd, the harp began to ring. 1816J. Wilson City of Plague i. ii. 26 Buy poison, and 'twill lie for years untouch'd Beneath thy pillow. 1877Huxley Physiogr. p. viii, The manuscript remained untouched until last year.
b. Not touched by another body, etc.; † spec. (quot. 1730), unmagnetized.
a1595Southwell Mæoniæ, Christ's Bloody Sweat 3 Fat soile, full spring, sweete oliue, grape of blisse, Vntil'd, vndrawne, vnstampt, vntoucht of presse. 1730Phil. Trans. XXXVI. 295 Of Touched Iron or Steel (or of Untouched, so long as it remains in a Posture which gives it Polarity). 1736Thomson Liberty iv. 416 Even yet untouch'd by daring keel, be theirs The vast Pacific.
c. Not approached, crossed, or traversed.
1628May Virg. Georg. iii. 75 Let us follow the Woods, and Lands Vntouch'd. 1729T. Innes Crit. Essay I. 28 The northern wall..was of no use at all to keep off the enemies, who leaving it untouch'd, passed easily over the narrow Friths. 1882H. S. Holland Logic & Life 50 We are carried forward to explore new regions of our souls as yet untouched and untrodden.
2. a. Not affected physically, esp. in an injurious manner; not damaged, harmed, or meddled with; unhurt, uninjured; intact. Const. by, † of.
c1400Found. St. Bartholomew's 62 Of an howse vntouchid yn myddyl of the fyer. c1440Jacob's Well 183 His suster..be þe vertu of schryfte, was vntowchyd of þe fyir. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 136 b, Whiche came out safe & vntouched of y⊇ fyre. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xvi. 10 No one [of the faithful] becommeth partaker of incorruptible lyfe, untowched of rotting. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 101 The Sultan..polluted the sepulchre of our blessed Sauiour,..of all nations vntouched & reuerenced. 1666Boyle Orig. Forms & Qual. 112 The Rudiments of the Chick..is nourish'd..onely by the White of the Egg... In effect you may see the Chick furnish'd not onely with all the necessary, but divers other parts,..whilst the Yolk seems yet as it were untouch'd. 1690Dryden Don Sebastian v. ii, Untouch'd, and Seal'd, as when intrusted with me, Such I restore it [sc. a paper]. 1736Thomson Liberty ii. 246 Then stood untouch'd the solid base Of Liberty, the Liberty of Mind. 1749Johnson Van. Hum. Wishes 35 Untouch'd his Cottage, and his Slumbers sound, Tho' Confiscation's Vulturs clang around. 1820Shelley Hope, Fear, & Doubt 9 Nor did I hope to pass Untouched by suffering, through the rugged glen. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. 317 We landed at the point where we left our life-boat a year ago, and to our great joy found it untouched! 1890Oman Hist. Greece 303 The plague had left the rest of Greece almost untouched.
†b. Not having had sexual connexions; immaculate, chaste, undefiled. Obs.
c1400Found. St. Bartholomew's 49 She skapid vntowchid. c1450Myrr. our Ladye 171 O vntouwched mother of the kynge of peace. Ibid. 296 Yet that maydes wombe is alway vntowched. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades 62/2 The vntouched Virgine Marie. 1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 343 Shee loues the Prince of Iambolly much better then the King;..yet on my conscience shee is vntouched, and iust to her Husband. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Hist. Jas. II, Wks. (1711) 31 The earl..sought..to have her in marriage, alledging her untouched of his brother. 1683Dryden tr. Ovid, Helen to Paris 30 Rude force might some unwilling Kisses gain, But that was all he ever could obtain... Untouch'd the Youth restor'd me to my friends.
c. Not used at all, left intact; esp. not partaken of, untasted.
1538Elyot, Illibatus, vntouched, vntasted. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. 36 Lupines,..for the bitternesse thereof whyle it is greene, they [sc. cattle] leaue vntouched. a1589L. Mascall Govt. Cattle (1596) 69 Cattell..leaue many tufts of grasse here and there vntouched. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 303 Choosing rather..to send away whole dishes vntouched, than other commers vnbidden to call for more viands. 1666Earl of Orrery St. Lett. (1742) 184 The 10,000 l. stock..I humbly beg your grace will keep..untouched to answer a dead lift with. 1679Pepys Mem. Royal Navy (1906) 5 A further Reserve [of Supplies] remain'd untoucht in Magazine. 1725Pope Odyssey x. 447 Untouch'd before thee stand the cates divine. 1798J. Naismith Agric. Clydesdale 93 The pastures are allowed to grow untouched, from..May to..August. a1828Arab. Nts. (1853) 328 A great quantity of provisions left untouched. 1839Thackeray Fatal Boots Dec., That famous rum-punch..which she and my sisters left untouched. 1863M. E. Braddon Aurora Floyd ii, He had sent his dinner away untouched.
3. Not worked upon or at; not touched or treated by way of improvement, alteration, operation, etc.
1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 39/1, I am..for preserving the old Structures untoucht. 1736T. Prince N. Eng. Chronol. ii. ii. 231 The General Frame of Diocesan Episcopacy had no doubt remain'd untouched. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 778 In engraving upon copper, every part which is to be white must be left untouched. 1833–4Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VI. 706/1 The mighty forests of America, untouched by human industry. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 3168, Untouched and coloured photographs. 1884Thompson Tumours of Bladder 41 [He] found a large tumour, which, after consultation, was left untouched.
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4. Not dealt with in discourse, etc.; not treated, written about, or spoken of; unmentioned. Also with upon.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 362 Þus no þing untouchid in þis lawe shulde be dun or axid to do. 1382― Joshua viii. 35 No thing..that Moyses comaundide, he left vntowchyd; but alle thingis he openyde [1388 declaride] before al the multitude. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 609/2 Wherein whoso consider what I haue aunswered hym, shal..perceiue that it had been better for him to haue lefte that matter vntouched. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, iii. vii. 19, I..left nothing..Vntoucht, or sleightly handled in discourse. 1667Boyle Orig. Forms & Qual. (ed. 2) 293 The nature of our present discourse forbids me to leave it altogether untouch'd. 1697[C. Leslie] Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 307 In his Answer..he passes this Section of their Diabolical Possessions, wholly untouch'd. 1793Wordsw. Descrip. Sketches Ded. ⁋4, I might have inscribed to you a description of some of the features... But the Alpine steeps of the Conway..remain yet untouched. 1841Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. 150 The earliest progress of Grecian art..must here be left untouched. 1866G. Stephens Runic Mon. I. p. vi, The comparatively few hitherto almost untoucht and unredd older or Old-Northern Runic pieces. 1900Handbk. Austral. Assoc., Melbourne 74 The aquatic worms are an untouched group.
(b)1746Eliza Heywood Female Spect. No. 24 (1748) IV. 319 They will needs have us take up the pen again, and promise to furnish us with a variety of topics yet untouched upon. 1856Carlyle Lett. Emerson (1883) II. 258, I must end, in mid-course; so much still untouched upon.
5. a. Not affected, modified, or influenced, esp. in a prejudicial or adverse manner.
a1586Sidney Def. Earl Leicester Wks. 1923 III. 67 If awncient undouted and untouched nobility bee worthi to match with the most noble hows that can bee. 1593Sidney's Arcadia v. (1622) 475 How can any lawes..be obserued, if the law-giuers, and law-rulers bee not held in an vntouched admiration? 1696Prior Presented to King 32 Be William's Life untouch'd, as is his Fame. 1699Bentley Phal. 232 In the third Verse..Mr. Stanley corrected it.., as appears by his Translation, utile; the other word he leaves untouch'd. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. i. §9, I will shew you..That whatever was sound and good we leave untouched, and encourage it to grow in the Mind of Man. 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy iv. xxix, In the case cited,..where patriae is put for patris, filia for filii, and so on—as it is a fault only in the declension, and the roots of the words continue untouched. a1763W. King Anced. (1818) 163 Clodia..was descended from an old Patrician family... Her behaviour was modest, and her reputation untouched. 1894H. Drummond Ascent Man 182 [In North Queensland you] will find the child of Nature still untouched, and neither by intercourse nor imitation removed by one degree from the lowest savage state.
b. Not affected or prejudiced in mind or feeling; not biassed or moved by excitement or emotion; unmoved, undisturbed, calm.
1616T. Adams Div. Herball 89 Some Sage, honest policie;..such as may stand with an vntouched conscience. 1697Vanbrugh æsop i. i, Is it possible any thing that I am Father of, can be untouch'd with so much Merit? 1709Steele & Swift Tatler No. 71 ⁋4 If a Man could be untouched at so warm an Accusation. 1748Richardson Clarissa VII. i. 3 The roughest and most untouched creature that ever enter'd a sick man's chamber. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 678 Every one proceeding by a softness and milkiness of temper, untouched by injuries, unmoved at offences. 1805Wordsw. Prelude v. 182 Think not that I could pass along untouched By these remembrances. 1838Lytton Alice i. x, Her heart is as yet untouched;—if she can love you, may you deserve her affection. 1876M. E. Braddon J. Haggard's Dau. II. 60 The young people were..untouched by the blighting influence of this aggrieved spinster.
6. Not equalled in respect of excellence or high character; unexampled, unparalleled.
1736Thomson Liberty ii. 194 Greece in their view, and glory yet untouch'd, Their steady column..held its way Triumphant. 1878Grosart H. More's Poems p. xxxiii, I have been struck with the untouched perfection of all that arrests you in reading.
7. Not entered upon; not begun.
1876Coursing Cal. 21 The day finished at dusk, with only twenty-seven trials, leaving the all-aged stake untouched.
Hence unˈtouchedness.
1889Kipling From Sea to Sea (1899) i. xviii. 145 The utter untouchedness of the town was one-half the charm. |