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lapideous, a. Now rare.|ləˈpɪdɪəs|
Also 7 -ious.
[f. L. lapide-us, f. lapid-, lapis stone.]
1. Of the nature of stone, stony.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. v. 91 The..lapidificall juyce of the sea..entring the parts of that plant..converts it into a lapideous substance. 1694Phil. Trans. XVIII. 112 This Lapidious Concretion took up the whole Cavity of the Bladder. 1758Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall xv. §7. 164 From malleable and metallic they become lapideous. 1865A. S. Herschel in Intell. Observ. No. 39. 220 The lapideous morsels.
†2. Consisting of or inscribed on stone. Obs.
1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. Pref. 7 Camden, by throwing his antiquarian eye on the lapideous records, which had been dug from its foundations, ascertained that..fact. |