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单词 lapidify
释义

lapidifyv.

/ləˈpɪdɪfʌɪ/
Etymology: < French lapidifier, < medieval Latin lapidificāre , < lapid- , lapis stone: see -fy suffix.
a. intransitive. To become stone. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > formation of rock or stone > [verb (intransitive)]
petrify1646
lapidify1657
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials ii, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Fff3v* Where this Chrystalline humour..lapidifies.
b. transitive. To make or turn into stone.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > formation of rock or stone > [verb (transitive)]
petrify?a1425
stonify1610
inlapidate1626
lapidify1816
lithify1877
1816 W. Smith Strata Identified 31 The Fuller's Earth Rock..in many places is so soft and imperfectly lapidified as scarcely to deserve the name of stone.
1860 Macmillan's Mag. 1 410 Layers of coloured clayey sand, in the lowest parts almost lapidified.
1874 C. Lyell Elem. Geol. iv. 45 Yet when the whole is ‘lapidified’ it may not form one homogeneous mass.

Derivatives

laˈpidified adj.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > formation of rock or stone > [adjective] > petrified
petrified?a1425
putrefied1761
lapidified1832
lithified1877
stonified1882
1832 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 2) II. 257 Lapidified plants.
laˈpidifying n. and adj.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > formation of rock or stone > [adjective] > petrifying
petrificant1603
stoning1623
lapidescent1644
petrifactive1646
petrifying1649
petrous1657
petrescent1661
petrific1667
lapidifying1669
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 266 From which lapidifying juyce [etc.].
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 25 Porous bodies..might be converted into stone, as being permeable to what he [Mattioli] termed the ‘lapidifying juice’.
1831 H. T. De la Beche Geol. Man. ii. 137 A..struggle between the destructive power of the Nera, and the lapidifying power of the Velino.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. viii. 260 They [pearls] are produced by the extravasation of a lapidifying fluid.
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