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Etymology

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From tincture (verb) +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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tinctured (comparative more tinctured, superlative most tinctured)

  1. (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], and are to be sold by Peter Parker []; [a]nd by Robert Boulter []; [a]nd Matthias Walker, [], →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

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tinctured

  1. simple past and past participle of tincture