Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of covering or treating with wax; waxing.
- noun The act of incorporating wax with some other body; also, the operation of communicating to a dry substance the consistence of wax. Also called
encerosis. Dunglison , Med. Dict.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of smearing or covering with wax.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of smearing or covering with
wax .
Etymologies
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Latin incerare to smear with wax; prefix in- in + cerare to wax, from cera wax: compare French incération.
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