Sekirov Dictionary

tincture

UK /ˈtɪŋ(k)tʃə/US /ˈtɪŋ(k)t͡ʃɚ/

noun 13
verb 4
forms 5

noun13

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A colour or tint, especially if produced by a pigment or something which stains; a tinge.
- 'Tis not a Sett of Features, or Complexion, / The Tincture of a Skin, that I admire. / Beauty soon grovvs familiar to the Lover, / Fades in his Eye, and palls upon the Sense. — 1712
A medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent.
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(figurative) A slight addition of a thing to something else; a shade, a touch, a trace.
- [A]fter the first comming of Hengist they had liued here C.L. yeers by the cõmon account vvithout tincture of true religion: […] — 1612
A hue or pattern used in the depiction of a coat of arms.
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(humorous) A (small) alcoholic drink.
- Weathers made them all have just one little tincture at his expense and promised to meet them later on at Mulligan's in Poolbeg Street. — 1904
An immaterial substance or spiritual principle which was thought capable of being instilled into physical things; also, the essence or spirit of something.
A material essence thought to be capable of extraction from a substance.
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The part of a substance thought to be essential, finer, and/or more volatile, which could be extracted in a solution; also, the process of obtaining this.
- [C]ome forth, / And tast the ayre of Palaces, eate, drinke / The toyles of Empricks, and their boasted practise: / Tincture of Pearle, an Corall, Gold, and Amber; […] — 1610
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(figurative, no longer used) A slight physical quality other than colour (especially taste), or an abstract quality, added to something; a tinge.
- And yet the iron here vvrought, is not in every place of like goodnesse, but generally more brittle than is the Spanish iron, vvhether it bee by the nature, or tincture and temper thereof. — 1610
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(no longer used) A pigment or other substance that colours or dyes; specifically, a pigment used as a cosmetic.
- [A]ll both men and vvomen paint or embroider their skinnes vvith Iron pennes, putting indelible tinctures thereunto. — 1625
(no longer used) The act of colouring or dyeing.
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(figurative, no longer used) A small flaw; a blemish, a stain.
- To offend against so gracious a Patron, vvould add a Tincture to our Disobedience; yet such is the Iniquity of our Condition, that vve are forced to defer our Gratitude. — 1659
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(no longer used) Synonym of baptism.
- Rollo sonne of a Danish Potentate, […] made transmigration into France, and there, after some martiall discords, honored in holy tincture of Christianity vvith the name of Robert, […] — 1612

verb4

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To colour or stain (something) with, or as if with, a dye or pigment.
- The VVater of these is like to that of Baden in Austria; it leaves a vvhite Sediment upon the Moss and places it vvasheth, and tinctureth metals black: […] — 1670
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(figurative) Followed by with: to add to or impregnate (something) with (a slight amount of) an abstract or (obsolete) physical quality; to imbue, to taint, to tinge.
- Of fulgent beautie; but so pure a mind, / As if tinctur'd from Heaven, and so devin'd. — 1634
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(rare) To have a taint or tinge of some quality.
- The portrait of the Author, prefixed, is engraved from a drawing by another of his friends, done from memory; it is like, but a likeness that tinctures of the prejudice of friendship. — 1787
To dissolve (a substance) in ethanol or some other solvent to produce a medicinal tincture.

forms

tinctured · tincturing · tinctures · tinctureth · tincturest

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