lapidate

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I hope that after my studies i will go back and help those lovely dogs. amazing how many lurkers there are just waiting to lapidate (look it up) a saint when he falls from grace ... give the man a chance and let the authorities investigate.

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  1. To stone; throw stones at; hit with stones. [Rare.] I have been in the catacombs—caves very curious indeed—we were lapidated by the natives—pebbled to some purpose, I give you my word. Scott, St. Ronan's Well, xxxi. The season for lapidating the professors is now at hand; keep him quiet at Holland House till all is over. Sydney Smith, To Lady Holland.
  2. To cut and polish, as a stone by a lapidary. The ruby-colored ones [tourmalines] when lapidated being easily mistaken for rubies. Eng. Consul at Bahia, quoted in Phila. Times, May 3, 1886.

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  • I hope that after my studies i will go back and help those lovely dogs. amazing how many lurkers there are just waiting to lapidate (look it up) a saint when he falls from grace ... give the man a chance and let the authorities investigate. —  timesofmalta.com
  • We speak because it is better they be roused to lapidate us than soused in their sty, with none to let them hear they live like swine, craving only not to be disturbed at the trough. —  Beauchamp's Career — Volume 4
  • a place apart and they stand there and lapidate most of us, and secretly wish that they had ever had the chance of being as bad as we are without being found out. —  Adam Johnstone's Son
 

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  1. from Latin lapidatus, past participle of lapidare (later Italian lapidare = Spanish Portuguese Provencal lapidar = French lapider), throw stones at, stone, from lapis (lapid-), a stone: see lapis. Cf. dilapidate.
 

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