† jaˈcinthine, a. (n.) Obs.
Forms: see prec.
[ad. med.L. iacint(h)inus, iacinctinus, for L. hyacinthinus.]
Consisting of jacinth; hyacinthine.
| 1382 Wyclif Exod. xxv. 5 Skynnes iacynktynes. Ibid. xxviii. 37 A iacynctyne filete. 1430–40 Lydg. Bochas viii. xii. (MS. Bodl. 263) lf. 379/2 Fourti stonis Iacynctyne. |
B. n. The hyacinth (flower).
| 1513 Douglas æneis xi. ii. 30 The purpour flour, hait iacynthyne [ed. 1555 iacinctyne]. |
So † jacinthinous (in 5 -cinct-) a., of the colour of jacinth, dark purple.
| 1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxi. 674 The fruyte of the oliue is fyrste..grene and thenne reddysshe other iacinctinous [Bodl. MS. iacinctines] and at the laste blacke. |