encaustic

[ en-kaw-stik ]

adjective

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

noun

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

encaustic

/ 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

noun

1. the process of burning in colours
2. a product of such a process

Derived Forms

• enˈcaustically, adverb

Other Words From

• en·causti·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of encaustic¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of encaustic¹

C17: from Latin encausticus, from Greek enkaustikos, from enkaiein to burn in, from kaiein to burn

Example Sentences

He works in encaustic, a mix of pigment and hot wax that requires a quick hand and whose immediacy has “a sonic quality,” he told a recent visitor to Hemphill Artworks.

From Washington Post

Pausias was the first to win fame in encaustic painting, although its technical processes had for some time been known.

From Project Gutenberg

Encaustic Painting, a kind of painting practised by the ancients, for the perfecting of which heating or burning-in was required.

From Project Gutenberg

Behind the Retablo some of the old pavement remains, of encaustic tiles in blue, white, and red.

From Project Gutenberg

There is a western gallery, and some seats made of glazed encaustic tiles on each side of the sanctuary.

From Project Gutenberg

Upon the adhesion to a smoothly-polished limestone, of an encaustic fat which forms the lines or traces.

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