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.
    • Boyle
      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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

tingent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of tingō
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