单词 | lapidify |
释义 | lapidifyv.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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < v.1657 |
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