lapidify

American  

[luh-pid-uh-fahy] / ləˈpɪd əˌfaɪ /

verb (used with or without object)

Archaic.

lapidified, lapidifying

1. to turn into stone.

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lapidify British  

/ ləˈpɪdɪˌfaɪ /

verb

1. to change into stone

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Other Word Forms

• lapidification
  noun
• lapidific
  adjective
• lapidifical
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of lapidify

First recorded in 1650–60; Medieval Latin lapidi(ficātiōn) “petrifaction” ( see lapidary, -i-, -fication) + -fy

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

lapidified lapidifying

Yet when the whole is lapidified, it may not form one homogeneous mass of stone or metal.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Yet Mattioli had come to the conclusion, from his own observations, that porous bodies, such as bones and shells, might be converted into stone, as being permeable to what he termed the "lapidifying juice."

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir