Definition of "tinctured" adjective comparative more tinctured , superlative most tinctured
(also figuratively) Coloured or stained with a dye or pigment ; coloured , dyed , stained , tinged . quotations examples
Quotations Six wings he wore , to shade / His lineaments divine ; the pair that clad / Each shoulder broad , came mantling o 'er his breast / With regal ornament ; the middle pair / Girt like a starry zone his waist , and round / Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold / And colours dipt in Heaven ; the third his feet / Shadowed from either heel with feathered mail , / Sky -tinctured grain .
1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 277–285