[ad. Gr. κηρογραφία painting with wax, encaustic painting, f. κηρός wax + -γραφία writing.] Writing or painting on or in wax. a. Applied to the encaustic painting of the ancients. b. ‘Engraving on wax spread on a sheet of copper, from which a stereotype plate is taken’ (Webster, 1856).

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  So Cerograph, a writing or engraving on wax; an encaustic painting, Cerographic, -ical, a., pertaining to cerography. Cerographist, one skilled in cerography.

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1593.  B. Barnes, Parthen. & P., in Arb., Garner, V. 465. Which Cerography In unknown character of Victory, Nature hath set.

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1731.  Bailey, Vol. II., Cerography, a painting or writing in wax.

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1846.  S. E. Morse, Geography (title), Illustrated with more than fifty cerographic maps. Ibid., Pref. 5. The new art of Cerography is applied for the first time to the illustration of a work of this kind.

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