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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Untuichit, -twichit, p.p. Also: untuicheit, -tuiched, -twechit, -touched, wntuichit. [ME and e.m.E. untouchid, vntowchyd (both Wyclif), vntouched (a1440); Tu(i)ch(e v.]

1. Not physically spoiled or damaged. 1533 Boece 155b.
Grete parte of Calidone Wod was sene birn apoun the nycht and vntwichit be fyre apoun the day 1533 Boece 224b.
Fergus … brocht the samyn bukis vntwichit throw Germany to … Colmkill 1558-66 Knox II 75.
The … fortificatioun [of Dunbar Castle] … sall be demolischeit … and sall remane onlie untuicheit that thing quhilk may mak the said castell mair sure

2. a. Of a thing: Not handled. b. Of a woman: Not having experienced sexual congress, undefiled.a. 1572 James VI in Bann. Memor. 245.
That thei wha hes the saidis landis sall not preis to lift up the saidis fruitis … bot sall leive the same stakkit in heip vpoun the feildis … vntuiched [Diurn. Occurr. 311, vntuichit] or disponit vponb. a1649 Drummond Wks. (1711) 31.
The earl … sought … to have her in marriage, alledging her untouched of his brother

3. Not influenced or affected by (witht) (something). 1562-3 Winȝet I 12/6.
Thay left to thy victorious hand … thre of the gretast ydolis but controuersie vntwechit a1578 Pitsc. II 94/8.
The governour [etc.] … lyke fyrie serpentis wntuichit witht the feir of God

4. Not alluded to or discussed orally or in writing. 1572 Cal. Sc. P. IV 299.
[They] leif untwechit [the taking and long imprisonment of Thomas Lindsay] c1590 Fowler II 72/3.
I purpose to liue vntouched … that quhilk concerns the goverment of comoun welths 1606 Melvill 635.
Quhilk we knaw … to be moir fitt to be ourpassit, or untwitchit, at the same [General Assembly]