Tincture vs Decoction - What's the difference?
tincture | decoction |
A pigment or other substance that colours or dyes.
A tint, or an added colour.
(heraldry) A colour or metal used in the depiction of a coat of arms.
An alcoholic extract of plant material, used as a medicine.
(humorous) A small alcoholic drink.
An essential characteristic.
* 1924 , ARISTOTLE. . Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Book 1, Part 6.
The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the substance of a body communicated to the solvent.
A slight taste superadded to any substance.
A slight quality added to anything; a tinge.
* Alexander Pope
* Macaulay
to stain or impregnate (something) with colour
An extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down.
* 1993 , Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford
* 1994 , Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies
As nouns the difference between tincture and decoction
is that tincture is a pigment or other substance that colours or dyes while decoction is decoction.As a verb tincture
is to stain or impregnate (something) with colour.tincture
English
(wikipedia tincture)Noun
(en noun)- for the earlier thinkers had no tincture of dialectic
- a tincture of orange peel
- All manners take a tincture from our own.
- Every man had a slight tincture of soldiership, and scarcely any man more than a slight tincture.
Verb
(tinctur)Anagrams
* ----decoction
English
(wikipedia decoction)Noun
(en noun)- Poley offered a hot decoction of blackberries, saying: Peace?
- Witches and devils no longer threaten you and me. We don’t mind living next door to the harmless lady with her herb garden and decoction still, her black cat and red hair.