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stonify, v. rare.|ˈstəʊnɪfaɪ|
[f. stone n. or stony a. + -fy.]
trans. To make stony, or turn into stone; to petrify. Also absol.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 363 Wilkes of stone or Shell-fish stonified. 1633J. Fisher Fuimus Troes ii. v. D 1 b, Whose most vgly shapes..[they] May kill, and stonifie without all weapons. 1763Ann. Reg., Char. 28/2 Flints..are.., if the expression may be allowed, more stonified than other stones. 1887W. C. Russell Frozen Pirate I. xi. 160 The temperature below had not the severity to stonify me to the granite of the men at the table.
Hence ˈstonified ppl. a. Also ˈstonifiable a., capable of being stonified.
1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 247 Every stonyfiable juyce hath its own determined..hardness. 1882R. C. Maclagan Scott. Myths 144 This stonified head. 1890W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. III. xxxiii. 218 The stonified ship [a ship encrusted with shells, etc.] shook to the mighty discharge. |