adjective
- painted with wax colors fixed with heat, or with any process in which colors are burned in.
noun
- a work of art produced by an encaustic process.
adjective
- decorated by any process involving burning in colours, esp by inlaying coloured clays and baking or by fusing wax colours to the surface
noun
- the process of burning in colours
- a product of such a process
c.1600 (n.); 1650s (adj.), from Greek enkaustikos, from enkaiein “to burn in” from en (see en- (2)) + kaiein “to burn” (see caustic).