lapidescent

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This contained a liberal amount of sonorous words derived from the Latin, such as "campestral," "lapidescent,"

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  1. Turning to stone; petrifying. A spring within the bowells of ye earth, very deepe, & so excessive cold that the drops meeting wth some lapidescent matter converts them into an hard stone, which hangs about it like icicles. Evelyn, Diary, June 20, 1644.
  2. Petrifactive; lapidific; having the power of converting to stone. Beneath the surface of the Earth there may be sulphureous and other steams, that may be plentifully mixed with water, and there, in likelihood, with lapidescent liquors. Boyle, Works, III. 557.
  3. A substance which has the quality of petrifying another substance, or converting it to stone.

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  • This contained a liberal amount of sonorous words derived from the Latin, such as "campestral," "lapidescent," —  History of American Literature
  • On the way back he chanced upon Mrs. Hastings, seated on a bench of lapidescent wood in the portico -- and a Titanic portico it looked by day -- and, having sent for the palace chef, she was attempting to write down the recipe for the salad of that day's luncheon, although it was composed chiefly of fowls now extinct everywhere excepting in —  Romance Island
  • The lapidescent drops distilling from these through a long course of ages, have gradually raised the floor of the cavern, so as to render it difficult to pass between the edges of the new surface and the circumference of the cavern. —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832
 

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  1. = French lapidescent = Italian lapidescente, from Latin lapidescen (t-) s, present participle of lapidescere, become stone, petrify, from lapis (lapid-), a stone: see lapis.
 

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