Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to the processes of dyeing or coloring.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining or relating to color or dyeing; producing or imparting color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or relating to color or colors; imparting a color.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to
tincture (dye or colour)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The strengths (or tinctorial yields) of dyestuffs differ and it may cost less to use a smaller amount of a stronger dye to produce the same colour.
Chapter 7 1969
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Some dyes (of high tinctorial yield) produce a deep shade with a small amount of dye, whilst others
Chapter 4 1969
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Some of them, namely, sculptors 'and potters' forms, are used for shaping the form we have called form C, whereas others, such as the tinctorial and printing forms, give objects color as well as shape, thus producing forms in the meaning of form A. History shows that the importance of form F in art is increasing.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968
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Copper is like a man; it has a soul and a body ... the soul is the most subtile part ... that is to say, the tinctorial spirit.
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir
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The formula would also favour the conception of tinctorial properties which could hardly be ascribed to tannin.
Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser
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Like the "coccus cacti," it is covered with a whitish dust, and yields a tinctorial matter soluble in water and alcohol.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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If some varieties are missing prepare a second stock dish from other colonies on plate 3, and repeat the process until each morphological form or tinctorial variety has been secured in subculture.
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For deep shades Diamine blue B G, is preferable, because of its greater tinctorial power.
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech
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Dr. Lewis was the first to advocate logwood as a tinctorial agent in connection with iron and gall compositions.
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These plants, growing abundantly in the Confederate States, and belonging to the madder tribe, should be experimented with for tinctorial purposes.
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