Usually means: Ointment made with wax, fats.
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  1. cerate: Merriam-Webster
  2. cerate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. cerate: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cerate: Vocabulary.com
  5. cerate: Wordnik
  6. cerate: Wiktionary
  7. cerate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. cerate: Infoplease Dictionary
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  10. Cerate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Cerate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. cerate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. cerate: Rhymezone
  14. Cerate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. cerate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. cerate: FreeDictionary.org
  17. cerate: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. cerate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. cerate: Medical dictionary

(Note: See cerates as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cerate)

noun:  (medicine, archaic or historical) An unctuous preparation for external application — mainly wax (or resin or spermaceti) mixed with oil, lard, and various medicinal ingredients — of a consistency between ointment and plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.
noun:  (inorganic chemistry) The anion CeO₃²⁻ of cerium.

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