Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Forming or converting into stone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Forming or converting into stone.
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- adjective Forming or converting into
stone ;petrifying .
Etymologies
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Latin lapis, lapidis, stone + facere to make: compare French lapidifique.
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Examples
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But have we any better proof of such an effort of nature, than of her shooting a lapidific juice into the form of a shell?
Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829
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But have we any better proof of such an effort of nature, than of her shooting a lapidific juice into the form of a shell?
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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