Obs. Also 6 tinkt. [f. L. tinct-, ppl. stem of tingĕre to dye, color. First used in pa. pple. tincted: cf. TINCT ppl. a.]
1. trans. To color; to dye; to tinge, tint.
1594. Plat, Jewell-ho., II. 22. Water deepelie died, or tincted with … colour of the hearbe.
1596. Drayton, Leg., ii. 541. My delicious Cheeke Tinkted with Crimson.
1626. B. Jonson, Masque, Fort. Isles. I will but touch your Temples,… and tinct the Tip, the very Tip of your Nose.
a. 1648. Digby, Chym. Secr., II. (1682), 174. It will Tinct itself as red as blood.
1650. Ashmole, Chym. Collect., 127. A Dry earthy Body tincts not, unlesse it be tincted.
1686. Goad, Celest. Bodies, II. xiii. 337. In dry Seasons the Solar Halo’s are sometimes tincted with red.
2. transf. and fig. To imbue or impregnate with some substance or quality, esp. in a slight degree; to tinge, tincture, taint. a. with a physical substance or quality: = TINCTURE v. 2 a.
a. 1626. Bacon, New Atl. (1650), 27. Artificiall Wells and Fountaines, made in Imitation of the Naturall Sources and Bathes; As tincted upon Vitrioll, Sulphur, Steele, Brasse, Lead, Nitre, and other Mineralls. Ibid. (1626), Sylva, § 882. So the strainer itself is tincted with salt.
1638. Rawley, trans. Bacon’s Life & Death (1650), 48. That towards the Morning, there be used some Anointing, or Shirt tincted with Oyle.
1644. Digby, Nat. Bodies, xxiv. (1658), 280. Although the heart should be tincted from its first origine with an undue virtue from some part.
b. with a mental or moral quality, or with knowledge, etc.: = TINCTURE v. 2 b.
1599. B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Hum., Ded. To take it in your hands, perhaps may make some bencher, tincted with humanity, read and not repent him.
1666. Sancroft, Lex Ignea, 23. Conjectures … so tincted and debaucht with private prejudice.
a. 1734. North, Exam., I. iii. § 15 (1740), 132. To suppose his Reader … tincted beforehand with what was ordinarily understood by the Plot.
3. Alch. To subject to a transmuting elixir: see TINCTURE sb. 6.
1599. [see tincting below].
1601. Dolman, La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1618), III. 844. Iron too much concocted and highly tincted, is easily changed into brasse.
1610. B. Jonson, Alch., II. iii. I meane to tinct C [a retort] in sand-heat to-morrow, And giue him imbibition.
1655. Fulke’s Meteors, Observ., 163. Cyprus Copper is made of Brasse and Iron…, and high tincted is easily changed into Brass, and rechanged … into Copper.
Hence Tincted ppl. a., Tincting vbl. sb.
1599. Thynne, Animadv. (1875), 33. Fermentacione ys a peculier terme of Alchemye … whiche is before tinctinge, or gyvinge tincture or cooler.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 960. Tincted Lanthorns, or Tincted Skreens of Glasse Coloured into Green, Blew, Carnation &c.
1672. Boyle, in Phil. Trans., VII. 5110. I applied a seal’d Weather glass, furnished with tincted spirit of wine.
