lapidify
verb (used with or without object)
to turn into stone.
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But have we any better proof of such an effort of nature, than of her shooting a lapidific juice into the form of a shell?
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph