encaustic

American  

[en-kaw-stik] / ɛnˈkɔ stɪk /

adjective

1. painted with wax colors fixed with heat, or with any process in which colors are burned in.

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noun

1. a work of art produced by an encaustic process.

encaustic British  

/ ɪnˈkɒstɪk /

adjective

1. decorated by any process involving burning in colours, esp by inlaying coloured clays and baking or by fusing wax colours to the surface

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noun

1. the process of burning in colours

2. a product of such a process

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• encaustically
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of encaustic

1650–60; < Latin encausticus < Greek enkaustikós for burning in. See en- ², caustic