to tinge or tint, as with color.
Obsolete. to imbue.
1425–75 for earlier alchemical sense; 1585–95 tinct for def. 1; 1595–1605 tinct for def. 4; late Middle English < Latin tīnctus, past participle of tingere to dye, color, tinge
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The afternoon was green; this do I recall; the haze in the atmosphere pregnant with the tinct of leaf and grass, so the water, the sky, all appeared submerged.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Pill hydrarg, to-night, and to-morrow morning a delicious goblet before breakfast—sulph mag, tinct sennae, ditto calumba.
From In Honour's Cause A Tale of the Days of George the First by Speed, Lancelot
A little too much lucent syrup tinct with cinnamon, don't you think?
From Ponkapog Papers by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
By thine ey's tinct enobled thus,155 Time layes him vp; he's pretious.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying medicine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring: 'twas mine, 'twas Helen's, Whoever gave it you.
From All's Well That Ends Well by Shakespeare, William
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