vincture

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

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

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 […]

• “vincture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

vīnctūre

1. vocative masculine singular of vīnctūrus