tinctured

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adjective

Coloured or stained with a dye or pigment; coloured, dyed, stained, tinged.

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Meanings

adjectivetinctured (comparative more tinctured, superlative most tinctured)

comparative more tinctured · superlative most tinctured

  1. alsofigurativelyColoured or stained with a dye or pigment; coloured, dyed, stained, tinged.
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    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.

    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
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of tincture

Origin

From tincture (verb) + -ed.

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APA

tinctured. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tinctured

MLA

“tinctured.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tinctured. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tinctured,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tinctured.

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