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ceratio

ceratio , waxing. b (alch.) melting together. 12‥ [subcamerarius] inveniet ceram ad filorum ~onem Chr. Abingd. II app. 388; 1345 pro ij lib. candel’ minut’ cere pro cereacione dictorum operum pro rege (KR Ac 390/5) Arch. XXXI 7; 1369 in uno pelle cervili, pro †teracione [? l. ceracione] ij aliorum pro cerotecis faciendis Ac. Durh. 574.  b fit ~o cum oleo vel aqua rectificata hoc modo. recipe rem †quam [? l. que] cirari debet et pone in vase argenteo, aureo vel stagneo et desuper pone de oleo †preparata donec fundatur ut sagimen. dum ita videris, velociter ab igne remove et infrigidari permitte. et infrigidato prova ipsum super laminam; et, †sic [l. si] resolvitur super ipsam sicut cera, ceratum est; et si non, reduc eam ad crucibulum et fac sicut predixi donec sic contingat M. Scot Lumen 266; fit ~o quando corpus siccum et durum suo humore reiterata frequenti imbibitione profunditur LC.

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