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lapidify, v.|ləˈpɪdɪfaɪ|
[ad. F. lapidifier, ad. med.L. lapidificāre, f. lapid-, lapis stone: see -fy.]
†a. intr. To become stone.
b. trans. To make or turn into stone.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 422 Where this Chrystalline humour..lapidifies. 1816W. Smith Strata Ident. 31 The Fuller's Earth Rock..in many places is so soft and imperfectly lapidified as scarcely to deserve the name of stone. 1860Macm. Mag. I. 410 Layers of coloured clayey sand, in the lowest parts almost lapidified. 1874Lyell Elem. Geol. iv. 45 Yet when the whole is ‘lapidified’ it may not form one homogeneous mass.
Hence laˈpidified ppl. a.; laˈpidifying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 266 From which lapidifying juyce [etc.]. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 25 Porous bodies..might be converted into stone, as being permeable to what he [Mattioli] termed the ‘lapidifying juice’. 1832Ibid. II. 257 Lapidified plants. 1832H. T. De la Beche Geol. Man. (ed. 2) 145 A..struggle between the destructive power of the Nera, and the lapidifying power of the Velino. 1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. I. viii. 260 They [pearls] are produced by the extravasation of a lapidifying fluid. |