tinct
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin tinctus, past participle of tingō (“to tinge”). Doublet of tint.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tinct (plural tincts)
- (archaic) A tint or colour.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- blue of heaven's own tinct
- 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 147:
- [She] fashion'd for it / A case of silk, and braided thereupon / All the devices blazon'd 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.
Verb edit
tinct (third-person singular simple present tincts, present participle tincting, simple past and past participle tincted)
- to tint, tinge or colour
Adjective edit
tinct (comparative more tinct, superlative most tinct)
- tinged or lightly coloured
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC:
- The blew in black , the greene in gray, is tinct
Noun edit
tinct
- Abbreviation of tincture.