touching

Provoking sadness and pity; that can cause sadness or heartbreak among witnesses to a sad event or situation.

a touching story

In direct contact with.

Regarding; concerning.

Now as touching things offered vnto idoles, wee know that wee all haue knowledge.

Every time I ascended to the deck from my watches below, I instantly gazed aft to mark if any strange face were visible ; for my first vague disquietude touching the unknown captain, now in the seclusion of the sea, became almost a perturbation.

The act by which something is touched.

But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.

A snack served with alcoholic drinks in an informal environment.