Definition of "waxen"

waxen¹

adjective
comparative more waxen, superlative most waxen
1. (UK, dialectal) Grown.

waxen²

verb
1. (archaic) alternative past participle of wax.
2. (obsolete) plural simple present of wax
  Quotations
  And they that occupye them been in muche savegarde, and have greate consolacyon, and been the readyer unto all goodnesse, the slower to all evyll: and if they have done anything amysse, anone even by the sight of the bookes, theyr conscvences been admonished, and they waxen sory and ashamed of the facte.
  1540, Great Bible, Second Edition, Preface
  When the rayne is faln, the cloudes wexen cleare.
  1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […]; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890,
  And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh,And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swearA merrier hour was never wasted there.
  c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]

waxen³

adjective
comparative more waxen, superlative most waxen
1. Made of or covered with wax.
  Quotations
  She is fair; and so is Julia that I love—That I did love, for now my love is thaw’d;Which, like a waxen image, ’gainst a fire,Bears no impression of the thing it was.
  c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene iv]
2. Of or pertaining to wax.
3. Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.
  Quotations
  It was hard to imagine that the broken thing had once been new; that those withered, waxen cheeks had been fresh and tinted. That her eyes had long ago glinted with laughter.
  1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 28, in Gormenghast‎, Penguin, published 1969, page 185
4. Easily molded, influenced, or bent; yielding, impressible.
  Quotations
  The traveller hears me now and then,⁠And sometimes harshly will he speak:⁠‘This fellow would make weakness weak,And melt the waxen hearts of men.’
  1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], Canto XXI, page 35
5. (rare) Easily effaced, as if written in wax.