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Lincture vs Cincture - What's the difference?

lincture | cincture |

As nouns the difference between lincture and cincture

is that lincture is a linctus; medicine taken by licking with the tongue while cincture is an enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing.

As a verb cincture is

to girdle, circle or surround.

lincture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A linctus; medicine taken by licking with the tongue.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    cincture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing
  • A girdle or belt, especially as part of a vestment
  • * 1988, (Alan Hollinghurst), (The Swimming Pool Library) , Penguin Books (1988), page 161
    • In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues.
  • (architecture) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

    • See also

    * ("cincture" on Wikipedia)

    Verb

    (cinctur)
  • to girdle, circle or surround