cerare

1 cerare [CL], ~iare , to wax (cloth or sim.), coat w. wax. b (alch.) to melt together in a (waxy) amalgam. c (p. ppl. as sb. f.) waxed tablet. Cf. incerare. habeat discipulus ejus [sc. aurifabri] ‥ tabellam ~atam [gl.: cire] vel ceromate unctam ‥ ad flosculos protrahendos Neckam Ut. 118; 1230 [pro] panno ~ato Cal. Liberate 165; filum forte ~atum et nodatum in extremitate Gad. 124v. 2; 1342 pro vj lib. candel’ cere minut’ pro dictis armis in mantilett’ ~iandis KR Ac 389/14 m. 4; 1346 in ‥ panno cyrato pro vestimentis Ac. Durh. 379; 1349 ad intrussand’ arcus et sagittas in canabo incerato ‥ et ad involvend’ arcus regis in canabo non ~ato (KR Ac 391/15) Arch. XXXI 93; regale corpus panni linei, securissime ~ati, ‥ implicatura ‥ involutum Ps.-Elmh. Hen. V 129; 1459 pro tribus petris cere ‥ deliberatis ‥ ad ~andum canubium ad arifaciendum pulveres bumbardorum ExchScot 495.  b spiritus corpore vel corpus spiritibus ingredi non potest nisi oleo vel aqua duce, viz. cum quo ~atur. ‥ res ~ata sine ulla fumi emissione velociter super laminam currit ignitam, quod incerata minime agit M. Scot Lumen 266 (v. ceratio b); ~are est incorporare vel miscere LC.  c waxid tabyllis, ~ate CathA.

2 cerare v. serare