ENCAUSTIC

encaustic. Encaustic, a. relating to enamelling or painting with burnt wax

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En‐caus″tic (?), a. [[L. encausticus, Gr. �, fr. � to burn in; � in + � to burn: cf. F. encaustique. See Caustic, and cf. Ink.]] (Fine Arts) 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.