ceredadj.
/sɪəd/ 1. Smeared, anointed, saturated, or rendered waterproof, with wax, esp. in cered cloth: = cerecloth n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > waxy materials > [adjective] > coated with wax
waxeda1380
ceredc1386
waxena1593
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > cering > cerecloth
cered clothc1386
cereclothc1450
cerement1604
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > treated or processed in specific way > [noun] > made waterproof > with wax
cered clothc1386
cerecloth1540
wax-cloth1816
the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > gauze or oiled silk, etc.
cering-cloth1480
cered cloth1541
cerecloth1547
protective1827
oxycellulose1882
cyanide gauze1895
tulle gras1933
fibrin film1944
c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 255 Ceride poketes, sal peter, and vitriol.
1438–9 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 408 In 22 virgis panni linei empt. pro le Seridclath pro vestimentis.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 154 Her epistle whiche she wrapped in a cered cloth.
1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 12. §12 Seared clothes, sufficient for the surgeon to occupie about the same execucion.
1558–80 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes i. i. 14 b A Violl well stopped with waxe and cyred clothe.
1634 Malory's Arthur (1816) I. 169 He did sew them in threescore folds of seered cloth of Sendale, and then laid them in chests of lead.
1821 J. Baillie Columbus in Metrical Legends lxii His cered corse lies here.
2. Equipped with a cere.
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1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 199 Birds with strongly hooked and truly cered bill.
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