Definitions
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- noun An object made of
stone , especially one formed frompetrifaction .
Etymologies
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From Latin petra ("stone") + (arte)fact.
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Examples
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I wager it's merely a petrifact from Neolithic loans derived from Proto-Semitic where *s- served as a causative marker.
Prefixes in Minoan 2010
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(dans l'inetant) two cold hands seize me by de wrists! and I was just dead -- I was petrifact in one instant.
Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841
qroqqa commented on the word petrifact
Of man's own wish this breathless loveliness,
Of man's own wish this deathless petrifact.
—Lawrence Durrell, 'Aphrodite'
March 17, 2009