Crossword clues for tinctured
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tincture \Tinc"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinctured; p. pr. & vb. n. Tincturing.]
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To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.
A little black paint will tincture and spoil twenty gay colors.
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To imbue the mind of; to communicate a portion of anything foreign to; to tinge.
The stain of habitual sin may thoroughly tincture all our soul.
--Barrow.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: tincture)
Usage examples of "tinctured".
I fear with some reason, that female conversation is too frequently tinctured with a censorious spirit, and that ladies are seldom apt to discover much tenderness for the errors of a fallen sister.
From the whole of his doctrines, Wickliffe appears to have been strongly tinctured with enthusiasm, and to have been thereby the better qualified to oppose a church whose chief characteristic is superstition.