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encaustic
[ en-kaw-stik ]
adjective
- painted with wax colors fixed with heat, or with any process in which colors are burned in.
noun
- a work of art produced by an encaustic process.
encaustic
/ ɪnˈkɒstɪk /
adjective
- decorated by any process involving burning in colours, esp by inlaying coloured clays and baking or by fusing wax colours to the surface
noun
- the process of burning in colours
- a product of such a process
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Derived Forms
- enˈcaustically, adverb
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Other Words From
- en·causti·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of encaustic1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of encaustic1
C17: from Latin encausticus, from Greek enkaustikos, from enkaiein to burn in, from kaiein to burn
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Example Sentences
Pausias was the first to win fame in encaustic painting, although its technical processes had for some time been known.
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Encaustic Painting, a kind of painting practised by the ancients, for the perfecting of which heating or burning-in was required.
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Behind the Retablo some of the old pavement remains, of encaustic tiles in blue, white, and red.
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There is a western gallery, and some seats made of glazed encaustic tiles on each side of the sanctuary.
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Upon the adhesion to a smoothly-polished limestone, of an encaustic fat which forms the lines or traces.
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