cered, ppl. a.
(sɪəd)
[f. cere v.]
Smeared, anointed, saturated, or rendered waterproof, with wax, esp. in cered cloth: = cerecloth.
| c 1386 Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 255 Ceride poketes, sal peter, and vitriol. 1475 Caxton Jason (1477) 114 b, Her epistle which she rapped in a cered cloth. 1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 12. §12 Seared clothes, sufficient for the surgeon to occupie about the same execucion. 1608 Tourneur Rev. Trag. i. ii, The faults of great men through their searde clothes breake. 1634 Malory's Arthur (1816) I. 169 He did sew them in threescore folds of seered cloth of Sendale, and then laid them in chests of lead. 1821 J. Baillie Metr. Leg., Colum. lxii, His cered corse lies here. |