Tincture vs Cincture - What's the difference?
tincture | cincture |
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 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
(architecture) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.
to girdle, circle or surround
As nouns the difference between tincture and cincture
is that tincture is a pigment or other substance that colours or dyes while cincture is an enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing.As verbs the difference between tincture and cincture
is that tincture is to stain or impregnate (something) with colour while cincture is to girdle, circle or surround.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
* ----cincture
English
Noun
(en noun)- In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues.
