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encaustically

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en⋅caus⋅tic

[en-kaw-stik]
–adjective
1. painted with wax colors fixed with heat, or with any process in which colors are burned in.
–noun
2. a work of art produced by an encaustic process.

Origin:
1650–60; < L encausticus < Gk enkaustikós for burning in. See en- 2 , caustic


en⋅caus⋅ti⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
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