inceration

English

Etymology

From Latin incerare (“to smear with wax”), from in- (“in”) + cerare (“to wax”), from cera (“wax”). Compare French incération.

Noun

inceration (countable and uncountable, plural incerations)

1. The act of smearing or covering with wax.
   • 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, (please specify the GB page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     - He has his white shirt on?
     - Yes, sir,
     He's ripe for inceration: he stands warm
     In his ash-fire.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “inceration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• cineration, irinotecan