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impaste, v.|ɪmˈpeɪst|
Also 7–8 em-.
[ad. It. impastare ‘to empaste, to raise paste, to put into paste..Also to beplaister’ (Florio, 1611), f. im- (im-1) + pasta paste. Cf. F. empâter, in Cotgr. empaster.]
1. trans. To enclose in or encrust with or as with a paste.
1548–67Thomas Ital. Dict., Impastato, impasted or raied with dirte. a1747R. Cumberland Mem. (1806) I. 63 The..hide grows stiff and hard, Scorch'd and impasted with the feverish heat. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 90 Wool and silk..may be viewed with most advantage impasted in Canada balsam slightly thinned with oil of turpentine.
2. To make or form into a paste or crust.
1576Baker Jewell of Health 92 b, Of these make a paste, letting it to stand impasted together for certaine dayes. 1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 481 With blood of Fathers, Mothers, Daughters, Sonnes, Bak'd and impasted with the parching streets. 1662Merrett tr. Neri's Art of Glass xxxviii, Mixed, tempered, and impasted with the whites of Eggs.
3. Painting. To paint by laying on colour thickly.
1727–41Chambers Cycl., Empasting, or Impasting, a term used in painting, for the laying on of colours, thick, and bold, or applying several lays of colours, so as they may appear thick. 1855J. Edwards Art Landscape Paint. (ed. 10) 36 In oil painting, the shadows, or dark portions of the picture, are painted thinly; while the lights are laid on, or ‘impasted’, with a full pencil and a stiff colour. 1865Leslie & Taylor Sir J. Reynolds II. vi. 146 Heavily impasted pictures.
b. transf. To spread thickly (on a surface).
1888G. Gissing Life's Morning I. vii. 290 [She] helped herself abundantly to marmalade, which she impasted solidly on buttered toast.
Hence imˈpasting vbl. n.; spec. in Painting (see 3); hence transf. in Engraving (see quot. 1864). Also attrib.
1727–41[see 3]. 1822Hazlitt Table-t. I. i. 17 note, The rich impasting of Titian and Giorgione. 1841Thackeray Men & Pictures 111 When you wish to represent a piece of old timber,..this impasting method is very successful. 1855J. Edwards Art Landscape Paint. (ed. 10) 36 In the lights of the foreground..the ‘impasting’ should be bold and free. 1864Webster, Impasting..2. (Engraving) (a.) An intermixture of lines and points to represent thickness or depth of coloring. (b.) The kind of work thus produced. |