tinct

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪŋkt/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋkt

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Noun

tinct (plural tincts)

1. (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

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

1. to tint, tinge or colour

Adjective

tinct (comparative more tinct, superlative most tinct)

1. tinged or lightly coloured
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 45, verso:

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

Noun

tinct

1. Abbreviation of tincture.