vincture

English

Etymology

From Latin vinctura, from vincire, vinctum (“to bind”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɪŋk.t͡ʃɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋktʃə(ɹ)

Noun

vincture (plural vinctures)

  1. (obsolete) A binding.
    • 1895, Aroda Reym, A Life Contrast, page 172:
      […] no gentler vinctures fettered her to her second home, except the sweet tie of her motherhood. All the dreams, all the betrayed hopes of her past flew to the cradle […]
    • 1902, Organization of the Conference: Projects, Reports, Motions, Debates and Resolutions, page 307:
      […] this treaty is a mere vincture to those who have adhered to the Hague; then what object has the article following  […]
    • 1956, Reginald Spencer Ellery, The Cow Jumped Over the Moon: Private Papers of a Psychiatrist:
      […] the pledge of a moral padlock or the knotted string of a legal contract […] the vincture of marriage, while somewhere in the background a pale verger lent his tongue to the murmured responses. No joyful voices praised the Lord. A bended knee, a clasp of hands, a ring, a few words made luminous with love […]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “vincture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Participle

vīnctūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of vīnctūrus
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