tincture

[tingk-cher]

noun

Pharmacology. a solution of alcohol or of alcohol and water, containing animal, vegetable, or chemical drugs.
a slight infusion, as of some element or quality: A tincture of education had softened his rude manners.
a trace; a smack or smattering; tinge: a tincture of irony.

Heraldry. any of the colors, metals, or furs used for the fields, charges, etc., of an escutcheon or achievement of arms.
a dye or pigment.

verb (used with object), tinc·tured, tinc·tur·ing.

to impart a tint or color to; tinge.
to imbue or infuse with something.

Origin of tincture

1350–1400; Middle English: dye < Latin tīnctūra dyeing. See tinct, -ure

Related formspre·tinc·ture, nounun·tinc·tured, adjective

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Examples from the Web for untinctured

Historical Examples of untinctured

The first effect was a profound amazement, not untinctured by alarm.
The Plattner Story and Others
H. G. Wells
He was brave as a lion, but not untinctured with the superstition of the North.
The Weird of the Wentworths, Vol. 2
Johannes Scotus
This is generosity, untinctured with any selfish reservation.
Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits;
Clark S. Beardslee
It bears throughout an air of probability, untinctured by romance, and has the strong impress of truth and fidelity to nature.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction,
Various
It is possible that Morone, and perhaps still more, Giberti, may not have been untinctured by them.
A Decade of Italian Women, vol. I (of 2)
T. Adolphus Trollope

British Dictionary definitions for untinctured

tincture

noun

pharmacol a medicinal extract in a solution of alcohol
a tint, colour, or tinge
a slight flavour, aroma, or trace
any one of the colours or either of the metals used on heraldic arms
obsolete a dye or pigment

verb

(tr) to give a tint or colour to

Word Origin for tincture

C14: from Latin tinctūra a dyeing, from tingere to dye

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Word Origin and History for untinctured

tincture

c.1400, from Latin tinctura "act of dyeing or tingeing," from tinctus "dye," past participle of tingere "to tinge, dye, moisten, soak," from PIE root *teng- "to soak" (cf. Old High German dunkon "to soak," Greek tengein "to moisten"). Meaning "solution of medicine in a mixture of alcohol" is first recorded 1640s. The verb is recorded from 1610s.

untinctured in Medicine

tincture

[tĭngk′chər]

A coloring or dyeing substance.
An alcohol solution of a nonvolatile medicine.