tinct
verb (used with object)
to tinge or tint, as with color.
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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American
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
Vocabulary lists containing tinct
Example Sentences
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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
O Hamlet, speak no more: Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul; And there I see such black and grainéd spots As will not leave their tinct.
From The Canadian Elocutionist by Howard, Anna Kelsey
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
I mean to tinct C in sand-heat to-morrow, And give him imbibition.
From The Alchemist by Jonson, Ben
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