noun. A paint consisting of pigment mixed with beeswax and fixed with heat after its application.

noun. The art of painting with this substance.

noun. A painting produced with the use of this substance.

Pertaining to the art of painting with pigments in which wax enters as a vehicle, or to a painting so executed.

In ceramics, an arbitrary name given by Josiah Wedgwood to his attempted imitation of the painted decoration of Greek vases, the effort being to produce fired colors without the gloss of enamel.

noun. The art, method, or practice of encaustic painting.

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

adjective. Prepared by means of heat; burned in.

adjective. painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors.

adjective. an earthenware tile which has a decorative pattern and is not wholly of one color.

noun. a wax-based paint that is fixed in place by heating

noun. a painting produced using this paint

noun. a paint consisting of pigment mixed with melted beeswax; it is fixed with heat after application

"The Greek characters traced on the backs of certain encaustic tiles found in the ruins of a building erected by Rameses III. at Tell el-Yahudieh may well be the work of some of these prisoners of war."

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