Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to the art of modeling in wax; modeled in wax.
- n. The art of modeling or of forming models in wax. It probably originated in Egypt and Persia, where wax was used in embalming. The Greeks derived it from the Egyptians and applied it to portraiture in the time of Alexander the Great. The Romans decorated the vestibules of their houses with wax busts of their ancestors.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Relating to the art of modeling in wax.
- adj. Modeled in wax.
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End of Plastic
List of words, mostly adjectives, that end in -plastic.
Ironic that in this list "plastic", contrary to its definition, remains fixed and immutable at the end of each word. Only the ac...dysplastic, paraneoplastic, desmoplastic, thermoplastic, symplastic, apoplastic, alloplastic, anaplastic, homoplastic, amnioplastic, arthroplastic, autoplastic and 159 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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