cerography

English

Etymology

From cero- +‎ -graphy.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

Noun

cerography (usually uncountable, plural cerographies)

1. The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax.
2. A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.

Derived terms

• cerographist

 

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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