waxen

Meaning

Adjective

• Grown.
• Made of wax; covered with wax.
• Of or pertaining to wax.
• Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.
• Easily effaced, as if written in wax.

Origin

• From Middle English waxen, from Old English weaxen, ġeweaxen, from Proto-Germanic *wahsanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *wahsijaną, equivalent to wax + -en.
• From Middle English waxen, from Old English weaxen, equivalent to wax + -en.