celature

English

Etymology

Latin caelatura, from caelare (“to engrave in relief”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛlətjʊə(ɹ)/, /ˈsɛlət͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Noun

celature (countable and uncountable, plural celatures)

  1. (obsolete) The act or art of engraving or embossing.
  2. (obsolete) An engraving.
    • 1627, G[eorge] H[akewill], An Apologie of the Power and Prouidence of God in the Gouernment of the World. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Iohn Lichfield and William Turner, […], →OCLC:
      These celatures in their drinking cups were so fram'd, that they might pur them on or take them oft at pleasure

References

celature in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

cēlātūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of cēlātūrus
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