单词 | tingeing |
释义 | tingeingadj. That tinges something (in various senses of the verb); (Alchemy) that transforms something by acting as or being a tincture (tincture n. 6a); (later also) that colours or tints something. Also as the second element in compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > [adjective] colouring1597 tingeing1650 tingent1650 infectory1657 staining1789 colorizing1830 pigmenting1906 1650 J. French tr. Paracelsus Of Nature of Things i. 11 in tr. M. Sędziwóg New Light of Alchymie So that now there are brought forth not common Metalls, but Tinging Metalls [Ger. tingierende Metall]. For if Silver bee regenerated (after the manner as wee have spoken) it will afterward tinge [Ger. tingierts] all other Metalls into Silver, so will Gold into Gold, and the like is to bee understood of all the other Metalls. 1728 J. Thomson Spring 53 The yellow-tinging Plague Internal Vision taints. 1807 Jrnl. Nat. Philos., Chem., & Arts July 202 The choice of tingeing substances for colouring the water, with which the prisms were filled, requires some precautions. 1899 Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 37 101 With blue instead of yellow as the tingeing colour. 2017 H. Thompson Fictional Matter i. 56 To transmute gold into silver, Boyle employs a piercing solvent that extricates tingeing parts from the bulk of the metal. CompoundsΚΠ 1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. i. 135 Tinging Frog. Rana Tinctoria... Smaller than the European Tree Frog. Native of South America. 1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. III. 175 The Tingeing Frog of Southern America (Hylaplesia tinctoria) is worth of a casual notice. 1874 W. H. G. Kingston Western World iii. xiv. 533 Among the frogs is the curious tingeing frog (Hylaplesia tinctoria), which is an inhabitant of the forest. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1650 |
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