tingent

English

Etymology

From Latin tingens, present participle of tingere (“to tinge”). See tinge.

Adjective

tingent (comparative more tingent, superlative most tingent)

1. (archaic) Having the power to tinge.
   • (Can we date this quote by Boyle and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     As for the white part, it appears much less enriched with the tingent property.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tingent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• netting, tenting

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) tingent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of tingō