encaustic

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: en=caus=tic

CIDE DICTIONARY

encaustic, a. [L. encausticus, Gr. , fr. to burn in; in + to burn: cf. F. encaustique. See Caustic, and cf. Ink.].

 Prepared by means of heat; burned in.  [1913 Webster]

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.

encaustic, n. [L. encaustica, Gr. (sc. ): cf. F. encaustique. See Encaustic, a.].

 The method of painting in heated wax, or in any way where heat is used to fix the colors.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

encaustic, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 (in painting, ceramics, etc.) using pigments mixed with hot wax, which are burned in as an inlay.
2 (of bricks and tiles) inlaid with differently coloured clays burnt in.
--n.
1 the art of encaustic painting.
2 a painting done with this technique.

Etymology

L encausticus f. Gk egkaustikos (as EN-(2), CAUSTIC)