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lapicide|ˈlæpɪsaɪd|
[ad. L. lapicīda, contraction for lapidicīda. f. lapid-, lapis stone: see -cide 1.]
One who cuts stones, or inscriptions on stone.
1656Blount Glossogr., Lapicide, a digger, or hewer of stones; a Stone-cutter or Free-Mason. 1736in Bailey (fol.). 1831M. Russell Egypt iv. (1853) 107 The Master Mohammed Ahmed, lapicide, has opened them. 1889D. G. Hogarth Devia Cypria 9 The cognomina of the three brothers being identical, the lapicide has not repeated them.
Hence † lapiciˈdarial a., of or pertaining to the work of a lapicide; † lapiˈcidary, one who is engaged in stone-cutting; a lapidary.
1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 23 b, The workemanship..seemed to excell the cunning of any humaine Lapicidarie. Ibid. 90 The hollowed and bending leaves with all the other lapicidariall lineaments, were performed with such an emulation of nature as was woonderfull. |