Also 7 cælature. [ad. L. cælatūra, f. cælā-re to emboss, engrave.] a. Embossing. b. concr. Embossed work, an embossed figure.
1430. Lydg., Chron. Troy, III. xxviii. With craftye archys reysed wonder clene … So merueylous was the celature.
1627. Hakewill, Apol. (1630), 372. These celatures in their drinking cups were so fram’d, that they might put them on or take them off at pleasure.
1649. Jer. Taylor, Gt. Exemp., X. § 17. They admitted even in the utensils of the Church some celatures and engravings.
1650. Fuller, Pisgah, III. v. 367. Nor was all this flouretry, and other celature of the cedar, lost labour. [In Bailey, Johnson, and mod. Dicts.]
