contactual

comparative more contactual · superlative most contactual

1. Of or relating to contact.

   We see that the contactual is essentially musical — as the musical is essentially contactual. One must be 'touched' before one can move.

   1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

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   Now imagine—for greater perspicuity—the Microcosm as a nether wheel consisting of 360 interstices (degrees), the revolutions of which ingroove themselves with twin projections from the Great Mechanism, thus effecting contactual points of attraction that resolve themselves into channels through which specific influences from the Macrocosm descend or are drawn into the reservoirs of cognate effluences awaiting them in the minutum mundum, or lesser world.

   1917, American Academy of Astrologians, Year Book, page 162