Definitions for encaustic

encaustic en·caus·tic

Spelling: [en-kaw-stik]
IPA: /ɛnˈkɔ stɪk/

Encaustic is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 486 anagrams from letters in encaustic (acceinstu).

Definitions for encaustic

noun

  1. a work of art produced by an encaustic process.

adjective

  1. painted with wax colors fixed with heat, or with any process in which colors are burned in.

Origin of encaustic

1650-60; Latin encausticus Greek enkaustikós for burning in. See en-2, caustic

Examples for encaustic

The art of encaustic painting, after lying dormant for about 15 centuries, was revived by Count Caylus, in 1753.

This Weimar series, executed in encaustic painting, is artistically the maturest that he ever did.

The floor was composed of encaustic tiles, and had many memorial brasses.

These walls were painted in encaustic, corresponding with the coved ceiling, which was richly adorned in the same fashion.

He was also credited with bringing into use the encaustic method of painting, though it was probably known before his time.

encaustic tiles have sometimes been used for memorials of the departed.

The material used is the encaustic painting, which has been revived by M. de Klenze.

encaustic painting (color mixed with wax upon the panel and fused with a hot spatula) came in with the Sikyonian school.

Pausias was the first to win fame in encaustic painting, although its technical processes had for some time been known.

The two hemicycles are painted in the encaustic manner direct upon the wall, whilst all the rest is executed in oils on canvas.

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