ppl. a. [f. CERE v.] Smeared, anointed, saturated, or rendered waterproof, with wax, esp. in Cered cloth: = CERECLOTH.

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Chan. Yem. Prol. & T., 255. Ceride poketes, sal peter, and vitriol.

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1475.  Caxton, Jason (1477), 114 b. Her epistle which she rapped in a cered cloth.

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1541.  Act 33 Hen. VIII., c. 12 § 12. Seared clothes, sufficient for the surgeon to occupie about the same execucion.

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1608.  Tourneur, Rev. Trag., I. ii. The faults of great men through their searde clothes breake.

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1634.  Malory’s Arthur (1816), I. 169. He did sew them in threescore folds of seered cloth of Sendale, and then laid them in chests of lead.

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1821.  Joanna Baillie, Metr. Leg., Colum., lxii. His cered corse lies here.

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