| 单词 | to touch the pen | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto touch the pen  d.  Originally Scottish.  to touch the pen: (of a person unable to write) to touch the pen while another person writes one's name, so as to authenticate the signature (also figurative). Now rare. ΚΠ 1507    in  W. Fraser Memorials Montgomeries 		(1859)	 II. 69  				The said Robert has affixt his sele, with his subscriptioun manuall, twiching the pen, causand ane vthir to subscriue for him, becaus he couth nocht write him self. 1563    in  J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. 		(1877)	 1st Ser. I. 242  				Sic subscribitur..Farquhar McAlester..with my hand twiching the pen, be the notar undirwrittin becaus I culd not writt. 1671    Kirkudbright Test. 		(National Arch. Scotl.: CC13/6)	 17 Apr.  				With my hand twocheing the pen led be the noter..becaus I cannot wryt myselff. 1686    G. Mackenzie Observ. Acts Parl. 453  				No Witnesse shall sign as a Witness to any Parties Subscription, except he know the Party, and saw him subscrive, or saw, or heard him give warrand to the Nottar, or touch the Pen. 1760    Answer James Farmer to Petition 6  				The Witnesses should..hear the Authority given to the Notary, and..should see some evident Token thereof by the Party's touching the Pen. 1795    R. Bell Lect. Solemnities used Scotl. viii. 266  				It was proved by both the Notaries, that the question was put, and that she gave authority, by touching the pen. 1851    Encycl. Americana 288/2  				Persons who are unable to write are accustomed to..touch the pen of him who makes the cross for them. c1866    C. Nordhoff Young Man-of-War's Man i. 8  				[He] told me to ‘touch the pen’, while he ingeniously wrote my name for me. 1911    Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 24 235  				The men whose names were on the paper denied ever having touched the pen. 1970    Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 11 387  				The Oba refused to touch the pen, though he allowed his name to be written and his advisers to sign the treaty. 1998    Anchorage 		(Alaska)	 Daily News 		(Nexis)	 17 Jan. 7 b  				This is the fellow who wants Alaska Natives to ‘touch the pen’ and swear allegiance to the state constitution. < as lemmas  | 
	
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