Meanings
plural incerations
- countableuncountablealchemyceration.
- He has his white shirt on? - Yes, sir, He's ripe for inceration: he stands warm In his ash-fire.
1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)1 more example
Take therefore of the bones of Adam, and of calx the same weight, there must be sixe for the rocky stone, & fiue for the stone of vnions, & these you must worke togither with Aqua vitæ (whose property is to dissolue all other things) that it may bee dissolued and boyled in it. And this a signe of Inceration, if the medicine will melt, when it is poured on an Iron redde hot.
1597, Roger Bacon,, The Mirror of Alchimy
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Latinincerare“to smear with wax”
- Englishinceration
From Latin incerare (“to smear with wax”), from in- (“in”) + cerare (“to wax”), from cera (“wax”). Compare French incération.
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