Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of stones; stony.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of stones.
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- adjective Consisting of
stones .
Etymologies
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Latin lapidarius, from lapis, -idis, stone.
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Examples
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A small boy met me in the corridor of the hotel and repeated a lapidarious vocabulary that would have shamed a professor of mineralogy.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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Were we to go beneath the soil and collect all the mineral and lapidarious wealth of the free States, we should find it so much greater than the corresponding wealth of the slave States, that no ordinary combination of figures would suffice to express the difference.
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