tinctured
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
tinctured (comparative more tinctured, superlative most tinctured)
- (also figuratively) Coloured or stained with a dye or pigment; coloured, dyed, stained, tinged.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 277–285:
- Six wings he wore, to shade / His lineaments divine; the pair that clad / Each shoulder broad, came mantling o'er his breast / With regal ornament; the middle pair / Girt like a starry zone his waist, and round / Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold / And colours dipt in Heaven; the third his feet / Shadowed from either heel with feathered mail, / Sky-tinctured grain.
Verb edit
tinctured
- simple past and past participle of tincture