encausticadj.n.
/ɪnˈkɔːstɪk/, /ɛnˈkɔːstɪk/, /ɪŋˈkɔːstɪk/, /ɛŋˈkɔːstɪk/, U.S. /ᵻnˈkɔstɪk/, /ɛnˈkɔstɪk/, /ᵻnˈkɑstɪk/, /ɛnˈkɑstɪk/ A. adj.
1. Pertaining to, or produced by, the process of ‘burning in’:
a. with reference to the ancient method of painting with wax colours, and fixing them by means of fire; also to modern processes of similar nature.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [adjective] > mural > encaustic
encaustic1757
1757 Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 654 The new encaustic painting, or painting in burnt wax.
1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) V. 2 The revival of encaustic painting.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 193 The processes of the ancient art, now lost..particularly the Encaustic method.
1867 A. Barry Life & Wks. Sir C. Barry vi. 184 The great fresco and encaustic pictures.
b. in wider sense, with reference to any process by which pigments are ‘burnt in’, e.g. enamelling, painting on pottery, etc. encaustic brick, encaustic tile: one decorated with patterns formed with different coloured clays, inlaid in the brick or tile, and burnt with it.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > plated or coated metal > [adjective] > coated with vitreous substance
annealed1552
enamelled1621
encaustic1656
porcelain-enamelled1895
stove-enamelled1912
porcelainized1930
tin-enamelled1933
porcelanized1958
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Encaustick (encausticus), enameled, wrought with fire, varnished.
1781 W. Hayley Triumphs of Temper vi. 174 The..artist, whose nice toils aspire To fame eternal by encaustic fire.
1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) ii. 45 The manufacture of encaustic tiles.
a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 177 The splendid encaustic floor is still perfect.
2. transferred and figurative.
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1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 232 Those encaustic records which in the mighty furnaces of London life had been burned into the undying memory.
1872 H. Macmillan True Vine vi. 260 The encaustic lichen on the rock.
B. n.† 2. A pigment or glaze applied by ‘burning in’.
1. [ < Greek ἐγκαυστικὴ τέχνη.] The art or process of encaustic painting. Chiefly applied to the ancient method of painting so called, or its modern imitations (see A. 1a); occasionally to enamelling, painting on pottery, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > a mural painting > encaustic wax-painting
cerography1593
encaustic1601
wax-painting1854
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 546 The art of painting with fire (called Encaustice).
1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Encaustice or Encaustica, the Art of Enamelling..with fire.
1838 Baroness Bunsen in A. J. C. Hare Life & Lett. Baroness Bunsen (1879) I. xi. 481 The method of painting in encaustic, practised by the ancients.
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. iii. iv. 300 The walls..entirely painted in encaustic by the first artists of Germany.
1848 R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting 221 (note) Encaustic..practised by the later Greeks..appears to have been nothing more than burning-in with a heater (cauterium) the ordinary wax colours.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > types of
lac1558
purpurin1558
colourish1598
earth1598
watercolour1598
earth colour1658
encaustic1662
lake1684
virgin tint1706
mosaic gold1746
bronze1753
gold bronze1769
cake colour1784
musive gold1796
sap-colour1816
repaint1827
moist colour1842
bronze powder1846
wax-colour1854
wax pigment1854
bitumen1855
chrome garnet1876
zinc-dust1877
zinc-powder1881
terra nera1882
earth pigment1900
1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura iv. 36 A certain Encaustic or black Enamel.
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