Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word WAXEN
WAXEN
Definitions of WAXEN
- Of or pertaining to wax.
- Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.
- (UK, dialectal) Grown.
- (archaic) inflection of wax.
- (obsolete) inflection of wax
- (rare) Easily effaced, as if written in wax.
- Made of or covered with wax.
- Easily molded, influenced, or bent; yielding, impressible.
Number of letters
5
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using WAXEN in a Sentence
- Waxen seals affixed to acta not only served to authenticate the written documents, but also physically symbolise the authority and significance of them.
- Despite the demanding hours at the mill, Hugh has a special talent; artistic talent to sculpt out of korl, "a light, porous substance, of a delicate, waxen, flesh-colored tinge", a leftover refuse from the smelting process.
- The characteristic conditionality of his pictorial images, the slow rhythm of compositional motives, the rich picturesqueness of waxen crayons and his virtuosic execution attach amazing figurative and colorful expressiveness to his pictures.
- Bishop Alberico Simonetta brought the waxen image of Maria Bambina to Milan on his return to his native town in 1738.
- In her book 'Sunshine in the Workhouse, she adopts a stronger tone: 'our Great All-Father says to us: "If they brother be waxen poor, and his hand faileth, then thou shalt relieve him, yea, though he be a stranger or sojourner, that he may live with thee".
- Upon this altar, in the first part of the rite, Simaetha burns successively barley-meal, bay-leaves, a waxen puppet, and some bran; next, the coming of the Goddess having been heralded by the distant barking of dogs and welcomes with the beating of brass, amid the holy silence that betokens her presence Simaetha pours the libations and puts up her chief prayer; lastly she burns the herb hippomanes and a piece of the fringe of her lover's cloak.
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