tinct
verb (used with object)
to tinge or tint, as with color.
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tinct
1 American
[tingkt]
/ tɪŋkt /
verb (used with object)
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to tinge or tint, as with color.
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Obsolete. to imbue.
adjective
noun
tinct.
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abbreviation
tinct
British
/ tɪŋkt /
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of tinct
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
O Hamlet, speak no more: Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul; And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct.
From Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Artifice is the strength of the world, and in that same mask of paint and powder, shadowed with vermeil tinct and most trimly pencilled, is woman's strength.
From The Works of Max Beerbohm by Sir Max Beerbohm
About eight o'clock in the evening, a noise is heard, dis- tinct even above the raging of the hurricane.
From The Survivors of the Chancellor by Jules Verne
Know, O my lord, that anon will come to us a little craft bearing a banner of azure tinct and all its planks are of chaunders and lign-aloes of Comorin, the most precious of woods.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Keats, the poet, wrote of "lucent syrups tinct. with Cinnamon."
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
For this condition use Conium first, and apply it in tinct., half water, to the eyes every four hours.
From An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time by B. L. (Benjamin L.) Hill
The medicine internally given was castor oil, with tinct. opium, and this, in a diminished dose, was ordered the next morning.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks
I was afraid to push the Digitalis in so hazardous a subject, and therefore directed tinct. amara with tinct. canthar. and pills of squill, seneka, salt of tartar and gum ammoniac.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by William Withering
Balls composed of camphor, pulv. uva ursi, tinct. ferri mur., mass purg., and pulv. lini. et gum. arab., were administered morning, noon, and night.
From The Dog by William Youatt
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