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How to use tincture in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun, verb

Tincture means a pigment or other substance that colours or dyes; specifically, a pigment used as a cosmetic. Example: “Madame de Pompadour used tincture of cantharides to regain the love of Louis XV.”

Examples of tincture by meaning

nounA slight physical quality other than colour (especially taste), or an abstract quality, added to something; a tinge.

  • a tincture of orange peel

nounA medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent.

  • tincture of iodine; tincture of cannabis; tincture of opium
  • Madame de Pompadour used tincture of cantharides to regain the love of Louis XV.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 56

nounA (small) alcoholic drink.

  • Weathers made them all have just one little tincture at his expense and promised to meet them later on at Mulligan's in Poolbeg Street.1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “Counterparts”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 115

verbFollowed by with: to add to or impregnate (something) with (a slight amount of) an abstract or (obsolete) physical...

  • The crowded shelves give off an inviting, consoling, seductive odor that is also tinctured faintly with something pernicious, with poison and doom.1982, Saul Bellow, “Him with His Foot in His Mouth”, in Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row...

verbTo have a taint or tinge of some quality.

  • Which one of the carefully chosen assessors, one white, one sufficiently tinctured to pass as black, was it who was speaking—both sat, either side of the judge, silent henchmen.1998, Nadine Gordimer, The House Gun, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 212

More sentences with tincture

  • Bear in mind that tinctures and medibles (edibles containing marijuana) use far more than ingestion by smoking.2010 October 18, Alicia Williamson, Grow Marijuana Now!: An Introductory, Step-by-Step Guide to Growing Cannabis, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry medible
  • Eaten alone as a munchie, added to tonic teas, or in tincture, all these sweet berries are superb.2022, Rachel Lord, “The Hepato-Biliary System”, in Clinical Herbalism: Plant Wisdom from East and West, St. Louis, Mo.: Elsevier, →ISBN…. From the entry munchie
  • Many authorities reject the authenticity of purpure as a tincture.1997, Brault, Early Blazon. From the entry purpure
  • The experiment of Mother Tinctures are identical to those prescribed for the tincture or alcoholatures mentioned in the pharmacopoea.1985, O. A. Julian, Materia Medica of Nosodes with Repertory, page 105. From the entry alcoholature
  • A rose in heraldry is a five-petalled one, and the five leaves and the seeds are often of different tinctures, e.g.1968, Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, pages 72–73. From the entry seeded
  • Otherwise the barbs and seeds must have their tincture stated.1968, Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, pages 72–73. From the entry seeded
  • The treatment with paraffin denarcotizes the preparation, making it less likely to produce nausea than the older tincture.1926, Joseph Price Remington, Ernest Fullerton Cook, Charles Herbert LaWall, Remington's Practice of Pharmacy, page 378. From the entry denarcotize
  • No definite system was used for testing the tincturing and spreading powers of the pigments, or for testing their permanence.1911, The Mining World, volume 34, page 73. From the entry tincturing
  • Said of a bugle or horn when borne with rings of a different tincture from the bugle itself.1908, Arthur Francis Pimbley, Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry: Together with an Illustrated Supplement, page 67. From the entry virole
  • Cannabis is sold in several manifestations, including loose varieties, vapes, preroll, oils, capsules, tinctures, cosmetics and other derma products, snacks, and beverages.2018, Bob Sehlinger, Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas 2019, Unofficial Guides, →ISBN, Recreational and medical marijuana. From the entry preroll
  • Experimenting with marijuana tinctures and edibles (medibles), while also continuing to immerse their daughter in social therapy, the parents saw rapid, significant improvements.2014 August 6, Dr. Mark Sircus, Medical Marijuana, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN. From the entry medible
  • At the same time the tinctures of the reversed Petrine cross on the field and the chief changed from red to blue.1992, Duane L. C. M. Galles, “The Reform of Ecclesiastical Heraldry Revisited”, in The American Benedictine Review, volume 43, number 4…. From the entry Petrine
  • Unless other tinctures are specified, the torse, like the mantling, is of the colours, i.e. of the principal metal and the principal colour.1983, Charles Boutell, Boutell's Heraldry, Frederick Warne Publishers, page 155. From the entry of the colours
  • The tincture of the gold known as Mademoiselle Grimaldi's potable gold had a wide reputation in the eighteenth century as an aphrodisiac stimulant.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 234. From the entry potable gold
  • It is drawn using solid panes of alternating tinctures, as in the field lozengy, but with the panes shaped like solid scales, rather than like the lozenges in lozengy.2002 August, Ailionóra inghean uí Mhurchadha (of Calontir), August 2002 - scaly vs papellony. From the entry papellony
  • He'd been accepted in the New Mexico program, and was using a home-delivered oral tincture of cannabis-infused olive oil, which he administered sublabially in a thirty-milligram dose twice a day.2013, Doug Fine, Too High to Fail, page 8. From the entry sublabially

Meaning of tincture

  1. noun A pigment or other substance that colours or dyes; specifically, a pigment used as a cosmetic.
  2. noun A colour or tint, especially if produced by a pigment or something which stains; a tinge.
  3. noun A slight addition of a thing to something else; a shade, a touch, a trace.

Full definition of tincture

Questions about tincture in a sentence

How do you use tincture in a sentence?
Tincture is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Madame de Pompadour used tincture of cantharides to regain the love of Louis XV.”
What is a short sentence with tincture?
“a tincture of orange peel”
What does tincture mean?
Tincture means a pigment or other substance that colours or dyes; specifically, a pigment used as a cosmetic.

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