tinct

Borrowed from Latin tinctus, past participle of tingō (“to tinge”).

• IPA^(key): /tɪŋkt/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋkt

tinct (plural tincts)

1. (archaic) a tint or colour
   • Shakespeare

     blue of heaven's own tinct

   • Tennyson

     all the devices blazoned on the shield, in their own tinct

   • 1889. Gissing, George. The Nether World, Volume 3 Chapter 1:

     The slightest tinct of uncertainty in the old man’s thought, and he, Kirkwood, became a plotter like the others, meeting mine with countermine.

tinct (third-person singular simple present tincts, present participle tincting, simple past and past participle tincted)

1. to tint, tinge or colour

tinct (comparative more tinct, superlative most tinct)

1. tinged or lightly coloured

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tinct

1. Abbreviation of tincture.