celature

English

Etymology

Latin caelatura, from caelare (“to engrave in relief”).

Noun

celature (countable and uncountable, plural celatures)

1. (obsolete) The act or art of engraving or embossing.
2. (obsolete) An engraving.

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “celature”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) cēlātūre

1. vocative masculine singular of cēlātūrus