Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A hard, unctuous, fat- or wax-based solid, sometimes medicated, formerly applied to the skin directly or on dressings.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In ornithology, cered; having a cere.
- n. A thick ointment composed of wax, lard, or oil, with other ingredients, applied externally for various medical purposes.
- n. Chlorid of silver; horn-silver. See cerargyrite. Also kerate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a hard medicated paste made of lard or oil mixed with wax or resin
Etymologies
- Latin cērātum, from cērātus, past participle of cērāre, to cover with wax, from cēra, wax; akin to Greek kēros.
Examples
“-- Simple cerate, which is spread on lint as a soothing plaister for sores, consists of equal parts of oil and wax; but lard may be used as a substitute for the wax.”
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“Western governments should be careful not to cerate and perpetuate an insidious myth that Africa has no alternative to dictatorship.”
“But they argue that Obama will cerate more big government, not them. ”
“It made more sense to her to cerate open source hardware than open source software.”
“What these 2012 activists do is this: The find 2 none-related things and then cerate a story to hook them up.”
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“Both the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committee will convene hearings next week to help cerate a change of strategy.”
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“Mostly people don't do this, but Carmine uses the technology to cerate copies to run errands and perform tasks.”
“If you suspect anything of the kind you must loose the dressing, if there be any itching below the under-bandages, or in any other part that is bandaged, and used a pitched cerate instead of the other.”
“The swellings which arise in the ham, at the foot, or in any other part from the pressure, should be well wrapped in unscoured and carded wool, washed with wine and oil, and anointed with cerate, before bandaging; and if the splints give pain they should be slackened.”
“To the wound itself a cerate mixed with pitch is to be applied, a thin folded compress is to be bound upon it, and the parts around are to be anointed with white cerate.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cerate’.
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The Whole Ball of Wax
Feel free to wax poetic.
the whole ball of..., wax poetic, wax, beeswax, ambergris, cedar waxwing, sealing wax, earwax, paraffin, bougie, epicuticular wax, waxing gibbous moon and 192 more...
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Old Pharmacy, etc.
This is not an Aubrey/Maturin list.
This is not an Aubrey/Maturin list.
This is not an Aubrey/Maturin list.
There. I think I've convinced myself.
(Of course...asafetida, Cinchona, Peruvian bark, Jesuit's bark, mithridate, aqua, bark, lard, electuary, gentian, diatessaron, myrrh and 100 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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