ENCAUSTIC

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile (Fine Arts), an earthenware tile which has a decorative pattern and is not wholly of one color.

2.
n.

The method of painting in heated wax, or in any way where heat is used to fix the colors.


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