To Ti'ncture. v.a. [from the noun.]

1. To imbue or impregnate with some colour or taste.

   The bright sun compacts the precious stone,
   Imparting radiant lustre like his own:
   He tinctures rubies with their rosy hue,
   And on the saphire spreads a heavenly blue. Blackmore.

   A little black paint will tincture and spoil twenty gay colours. Watts.

2. To imbue the mind.

   Early were our minds tinctured with a distinguishing sense of good and evil; early were the seeds of a divine love, and holy fear of offending, sown in our hearts. Atterbury.