encaustus (encaut-), a, um, adj., = ἔγκαυστος, burned in, encaustic.
I Adj. : genus pingendi, the encaustic mode of painting , Plin. 35, 11, 41, § 149; cf., respecting it, O. Müller, Archäol. § 320: Phaëthon, Mart. 4, 47, 1.—
II Subst.: en-caustum ( encaut- ), i., n., = ἔγκαυστον, the purple-red ink of the later Roman emperors , Cod. Th. 7, 20, 1; August. contra Faust. 3, 18; Cod. Just. 1, 23, 6 al.