celature
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Latin caelatura, from caelare (“to engrave in relief”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
celature (countable and uncountable, plural celatures)
- (obsolete) The act or art of engraving or embossing.
- (obsolete) An engraving.
- 1627, G[eorge] H[akewill], An Apologie of the Power and Prouidence of God in the Gouernment of the World. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Iohn Lichfield and William Turner, […], →OCLC:
- These celatures in their drinking cups were so fram'd, that they might pur them on or take them oft at pleasure
References[edit]
“celature”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Participle[edit]
cēlātūre