Tincture

Quick meaning: Tincture is a noun meaning Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.

Meaning

Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.

More Meanings

1. Scientific and alchemical senses.
2. To colour or stain (something) with, or as if with, a dye or pigment.
3. To dissolve (a substance) in ethanol or some other solvent to produce a medicinal tincture.
4. (intransitive, rare) To have a taint or tinge of some quality.
5. 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.

Example Sentences

Of fulgent beautie; but ſo pure a mind, / As if tinctur'd from Heaven, and ſo devin'd.

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: […]

The remainder, […] thus retreats, that is, by the continual appulſe of the Sap, is in part carried off into the Cortical Body back again, the Sap vvhereof it novv tinctures into good Aliment: […]

[T]his very River Nilus that runs novv into the Mediterranean is the River that vvill run tinctured with bloud three hundred years hence, though the vvater is not the ſame novv and then nor of the ſame Quality: […]

Word Forms

• tinctures
• tincturing
• tinctured

Synonyms for tincture

Depending on context, synonyms include tone, infuse, instill, tint, impregnate, shade.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tint, impregnate, shade, infuse, instill, tone.

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