Lewis Short
(verb) : prae-tingo, nxi, nctum, 3
* To dip in or moisten beforehand (poet. and in postclass. prose): semina practincta veneno,Ov. M. 7, 123: aqua, in quā fuerit candens ferrum praetinctum,Cael. Aur. Tard. 1, 4.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary