Tinct

//tɪŋkt// adj, noun, verb

adj, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A tint or colour. archaic

    "blue of heaven's own tinct"

  2. 2
    Abbreviation of tincture. abbreviation, alt-of
Verb
  1. 1
    to tint, tinge or colour
  2. 2
    color lightly wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    tinged or lightly coloured

    "The blew in black, the greene in gray is tinct, […]"

Example

More examples

"[She] fashion'd for it / A case of silk, and braided thereupon / All the devices blazon'd on the shield / In their own tinct, […]"

Etymology

From Middle English tynct (noun) and tincten, tyncten, tynkten (verb), borrowed from Latin tīnctus, past participle of tingō (“to tinge”). Doublet of tint.

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