tincture.
Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid.
Meaning & usage
Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid. A pigment or other substance that colours or dyes; specifically, a pigment used as a cosmetic.
Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid. A colour or tint, especially if produced by a pigment or something which stains; a tinge.
Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid. A slight addition of a thing to something else; a shade, a touch, a trace.
Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid. A hue or pattern used in the depiction of a coat of arms.
Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid. The act of colouring or dyeing.
Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid. A slight physical quality other than colour (especially taste), or an abstract quality, added to something; a tinge.
a tincture of orange peel
Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid. A small flaw; a blemish, a stain.
Senses relating to colour, and to dipping something into a liquid. Synonym of baptism.
Scientific and alchemical senses. A medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent.
tincture of iodine; tincture of cannabis; tincture of opium
Scientific and alchemical senses. A (small) alcoholic drink.
Scientific and alchemical senses. An immaterial substance or spiritual principle which was thought capable of being instilled into physical things; also, the essence or spirit of something.
Scientific and alchemical senses. A material essence thought to be capable of extraction from a substance.
Scientific and alchemical senses. The part of a substance thought to be essential, finer, and/or more volatile, which could be extracted in a solution; also, the process of obtaining this.
Where this word comes from
The noun is derived from Late Middle English tincture (“a dye, pigment; a colour, hue, tint; process of colouring or dyeing; medicinal ointment or salve (perhaps one discolouring the skin); use of a medicinal tincture; (alchemy) transmutation of base metals into gold; ability to cause such transmutation; substance supposed to cause such transmutation”) [and other forms], borrowed from Latin tīnctūra (“act of dyeing”) + Middle English -ure (suffix indicating an action or a process and the means or result of that action or process). Tīnctūra is derived from tīnctus (“coloured, tinged; dipped in; impregnated with; treated”) + -tūra (suffix forming action nouns expressing activities or results); while tīnctus is the perfect passive participle of tingō (“to colour, dye, tinge; to dip (in), immerse; to impregnate (with); to moisten, wet; to smear”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to dip; to soak”). Doublet of tainture, teinture, and tinctura. The verb is derived from the noun.
To colour or stain (something) with, or as if with, a dye or pigment.
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.
To dissolve (a substance) in ethanol or some other solvent to produce a medicinal tincture.
To have a taint or tinge of some quality.
Where this word comes from
The noun is derived from Late Middle English tincture (“a dye, pigment; a colour, hue, tint; process of colouring or dyeing; medicinal ointment or salve (perhaps one discolouring the skin); use of a medicinal tincture; (alchemy) transmutation of base metals into gold; ability to cause such transmutation; substance supposed to cause such transmutation”) [and other forms], borrowed from Latin tīnctūra (“act of dyeing”) + Middle English -ure (suffix indicating an action or a process and the means or result of that action or process). Tīnctūra is derived from tīnctus (“coloured, tinged; dipped in; impregnated with; treated”) + -tūra (suffix forming action nouns expressing activities or results); while tīnctus is the perfect passive participle of tingō (“to colour, dye, tinge; to dip (in), immerse; to impregnate (with); to moisten, wet; to smear”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to dip; to soak”). Doublet of tainture, teinture, and tinctura. The verb is derived from the noun.
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