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.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Attinge, to touch lightly or softly; to mention or handle briefly, to reach to, to arrive or come to.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 534. It helps and delights all parts it attinges.
1666. J. Smith, Old Age (ed. 2), 78. Because they [the teeth] might the better attinge one anothers bodies.
1742. in Bailey [from Blount].
2. To touch in relationship.
a. 1639. Spottiswood, Hist. Ch. Scot., IV. (1677), 202. The Consanguinity standing betwixt Bothwell and his wife … they mutually attinging others in the fourth degree.
3. To affect, influence.
1640. Bp. Reynolds, Of Passions, xxxii. (1826), VI. 247. The pollution of the soul … attinging the ultimate disposition of the Body.
