tainture Now rare.
(ˈteɪntjʊə(r))
Also 5–7 taynt-, 6–7 tainct-.
I. [a. OF. tainture, teinture colouring (13th c.), ad. L. tinctūra dyeing, tincture; in sense 2 as in taint v.1 C.]
† 1. Colouring. Obs.
| 1490 Caxton Eneydos vi. 24 We wryte the grete and firste capytall lettres..wyth the taynture of reed coloure. |
2. Tainting, staining, stain, defilement, infection.
| 1593 Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, ii. i. 188 Gloster, see here the Taincture of thy Nest, And looke thy selfe be faultlesse, thou wert best. 1609 Rawlinson Fishermen 11 To keepe it from the corruption and tainture of sin. 1634 T. Johnson tr. Parey's Chirurg. xviii. ix. (1678) 419 There are..three distinct causes of gout: A tainture from the Parents [etc.]. 1645 Ussher Body Div. (1647) 126 It shining in him without tainture or blemish. 1681 Rycaut tr. Gracian's Critick 227 Others have always retained some tainture and favour of their former condition. 1854 Fraser's Mag. L. 667 Who Neerland's blood feel nobly flow, From foreign tainture free. |
II. † 3. Aphetic form of attainture. Obs.
| 1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid's Met. i. (1626) 20 Asham'd that such a tainture should be lay'd Vpon my blood, that could not be gayn-said. |