Encaustic

(en-kauz'tik.) [From Gr. en, in, and kaustikos, burning-a burning-in.] (Fine Arts.) A manner of painting with a wax medium, which is impregnated and fixed upon the canvas or panel by the aid of heat, burnt in (incaustum), practised by the artists of antiquity,who used the stylus and wax. Various attempts have been made in modern times to revive it, but with little succe , oil being a far better medium than wax. -E. Tiles are ornamental tiles made of an earthenware intermediate between common tiles and porcelain, and now extensively used for paving churches, halls, conservatories, . [s. 330]