lapidaryadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈlapᵻd(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈlæpəˌdɛri/

Forms: Middle English lapidaire, Middle English–1500s Scottish lapidar, Middle English–1600s lapidarie, lapidarye, (Middle English lapadary, lipidarye), 1600s lapidare, lapidery, 1500s– lapidary.

Etymology: < Latin lapidārius, < lapid-, lapis stone. Compare French lapidaire. In B. 2 and 3 < Latin lapidārium or Latin type *lapidāria.

A. adj.

1. Concerned with stones. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [adjective]

lapidian1600

lapidary1831

1831 T. De Quincey Dr. Parr in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 907/1 That lapidary style of retort in which their skill naturally expresses itself.

1835 Court Mag. 6 166/2 An Irish pavior expressed an anxiety to enter into partnership with a friend, who likewise followed the same lapidary profession.

2. (a) Of an inscription, etc.: Engraved on stone, esp. monumental stones. (b) Of style, etc.: Characteristic of or suitable for monumental inscriptions.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [adjective]

sensiblea1393

eloquent1393

rhetoricc1450

mightya1500

pithy1529

grave1541

pithful1548

weighty1560

sappy1563

emphatical1567

fasta1568

thwacking1567

forceful1571

enforceable1589

energetical1596

eloquious1599

sinewy1600

emphatic1602

sinewed1604

strong1604

tonitruous1606

nervose1645

nervous1663

energetic1674

energic1683

strong1685

cogent1718

lapidary1724

forcible1726

authoritative1749

terse1777

telling1819

vigorous1821

sturdy1822

tonitruant1861

meaty1874

vertebrate1882

energized1887

jawy1898

heavy1970

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > incising or intaglio > [adjective]

written?1440

engraven1583

lapidary1724

intagliated1782

engraileda1806

incised1807

lapideous1807

graven1821

descript1863

lapidarian1864

pointillé1884

1724 Life of Dr. Barwick 40 (note) See a farther Account of him..in Dr. Jenkins's Lapidary Verses prefix'd to those Sermons.

1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 147 These Words..expressed, in the Lapidary Stile, that it was built from its very Foundation.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1775 I. 514 [Johnson:] In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

1817 C. Lamb Let. 12 May in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1978) III. 244 Tell me candidly how you relish This which they call the lapidary Style?

1822 Ld. Byron Vision of Judgm. xii He's buried; save the undertaker's bill, Or lapidary scrawl.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. viii. 503 They were the encouragers of a numismatic and lapidary erudition.

1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab vii. 135 If the new-comers had had any reverence for the lapidary records of their predecessors.

1899 Academy 18 Feb. 210/2 A stanza [which] has a lapidary dignity, as of some thing carved in stone.

B. n.

1. One busied about or concerned with stones.

a. An artificer who cuts, polishes, or engraves gems or precious stones.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > making jewellery or setting with jewels > [noun] > jeweller > who cuts or engraves stones

lapidarya1382

gemmary1382

lapicidary1592

lapidist1647

crystal cuttera1703

diamond-cutter1722

cameist1866

glyptician1883

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xlv. 13 With werk of the lapidarie grauun.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 222 Glasing wrichtis, goldsmythis and lapidaris.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 233 The region of Malabar, where are many cunnynge Lapidaries.

a1625 J. Fletcher Rule a Wife (1640) v. 56 An excellent lapidary set these stones sure.

1684 Winstanley in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 401 Cornish Diamonds are not Polished by any Lapidary.

1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. xxxii. 234 Ratchkali, who was an exquisite lapidary, had set it in such a manner as would have imposed upon any ordinary jeweller.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xx. 141 Portions of the vertical walls..are polished..as if they had come from the hands of a lapidary.

1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour v. 81 The productions of the sculptor and the lapidary.

†b. One who is skilled in the nature and kinds of gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > [noun] > connoisseur of precious stones

lapidaryc1440

stonerc1440

lapidarist1607

lapidist1647

gemmologist1931

c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xxiv. 89 He went to a lapadary, that was expert in the vertue of stonys.

1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande i. f. 1^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I If it shall stande wyth your Honour his pleasure (whome I take to be an experte Lapidarie).

1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xxxii. 14 The bright Carbuncle (whose wondrous flame Pussles the skillfull Lapidare to Name).

a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 166 The Lapidary tells you how the Compassionate Turcoise confesseth the Sickness of his Wearer by changing colour.

1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 145 (225) I find twelve species of the emerald described by lapidaries.

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 361 This name [Pudding stone] was invented by English Lapidaries.

2. A treatise on (precious) stones. Obsolete exc. Historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > [noun] > treatise on

lapidaryc1384

c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 262 The fynest stones faire That men reden in the lapidaire.

c1440 J. Lydgate Secrees 539 I dar seyn breffly, and nat tarye, Is noon suych stoon ffound in the lapydarye.

c1480 (a1400) St. Margaret 2 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 47 Qwa wil þe vertu wyt of stanis, in þe lapidar ma fynd ane is [etc.].

1652 E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 221 Alle Stonys in the lapidery.

1884 J. A. Symonds Shakspere's Predecessors xiii. 512 The Bestiaries and Lapidaries of the Middle Ages.

†3. collective. [after nouns in -ery suffix.] Precious stones in general; jewellery. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > [noun]

gemc825

stonec825

gemstonec1000

perrya1300

precious stonec1300

jewela1400

regalc1426

precious pierc1450

margaritea1500

lapidary1509

hardstone1853

shiner1884

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > [noun]

jewelleryc1400

pierreriea1450

usker1536

lapidary1609

bijouterie1815

junk1911

tomfoolery1930

tom1955

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lvii There is no..Carbuncle Ruby..Nor other lapydary comparable to me.

1609 R. Armin Hist. Two Maids More-clacke sig. F 4 A iewell..Whose liuing beauty staind all lapidary.

Compounds

lapidary bee n. (see quots.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > member of family Bombidae (bumble-bee) > bombus lapidarius

lapidary bee1854

1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 68 The lapidary red-tipped bees, that built amid the recesses of ancient cairns, and in old dry stone walls.

1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands vii. 138 The Lapidary Bee (Bombus lapidarius).

lapidary mill n. (also lapidary wheel, lapidary's mill, lapidary's wheel) the grinding and polishing apparatus of the lapidary.

ΚΠ

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 738 The lapidary's mill, or wheel.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Lapidary-mill, Lapidary-wheel.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 58 As though they [the crystals] had just been polished at the lapidary's wheel.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lapidary
释义	lapidaryadj.n. Brit. /ˈlapᵻd(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈlæpəˌdɛri/ Forms: Middle English lapidaire, Middle English–1500s Scottish lapidar, Middle English–1600s lapidarie, lapidarye, (Middle English lapadary, lipidarye), 1600s lapidare, lapidery, 1500s– lapidary. Etymology: < Latin lapidārius, < lapid-, lapis stone. Compare French lapidaire. In B. 2 and 3 < Latin lapidārium or Latin type lapidāria. A. adj. 1. Concerned with stones. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [adjective] lapidian1600 lapidary1831 1831 T. De Quincey Dr. Parr* in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 907/1 That lapidary style of retort in which their skill naturally expresses itself. 1835 Court Mag. 6 166/2 An Irish pavior expressed an anxiety to enter into partnership with a friend, who likewise followed the same lapidary profession. 2. (a) Of an inscription, etc.: Engraved on stone, esp. monumental stones. (b) Of style, etc.: Characteristic of or suitable for monumental inscriptions. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [adjective] sensiblea1393 eloquent1393 rhetoricc1450 mightya1500 pithy1529 grave1541 pithful1548 weighty1560 sappy1563 emphatical1567 fasta1568 thwacking1567 forceful1571 enforceable1589 energetical1596 eloquious1599 sinewy1600 emphatic1602 sinewed1604 strong1604 tonitruous1606 nervose1645 nervous1663 energetic1674 energic1683 strong1685 cogent1718 lapidary1724 forcible1726 authoritative1749 terse1777 telling1819 vigorous1821 sturdy1822 tonitruant1861 meaty1874 vertebrate1882 energized1887 jawy1898 heavy1970 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > incising or intaglio > [adjective] written?1440 engraven1583 lapidary1724 intagliated1782 engraileda1806 incised1807 lapideous1807 graven1821 descript1863 lapidarian1864 pointillé1884 1724 Life of Dr. Barwick 40 (note) See a farther Account of him..in Dr. Jenkins's Lapidary Verses prefix'd to those Sermons. 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 147 These Words..expressed, in the Lapidary Stile, that it was built from its very Foundation. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1775 I. 514 [Johnson:] In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. 1817 C. Lamb Let. 12 May in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1978) III. 244 Tell me candidly how you relish This which they call the lapidary Style? 1822 Ld. Byron Vision of Judgm. xii He's buried; save the undertaker's bill, Or lapidary scrawl. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. viii. 503 They were the encouragers of a numismatic and lapidary erudition. 1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab vii. 135 If the new-comers had had any reverence for the lapidary records of their predecessors. 1899 Academy 18 Feb. 210/2 A stanza [which] has a lapidary dignity, as of some thing carved in stone. B. n. 1. One busied about or concerned with stones. a. An artificer who cuts, polishes, or engraves gems or precious stones. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > making jewellery or setting with jewels > [noun] > jeweller > who cuts or engraves stones lapidarya1382 gemmary1382 lapicidary1592 lapidist1647 crystal cuttera1703 diamond-cutter1722 cameist1866 glyptician1883 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xlv. 13 With werk of the lapidarie grauun. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 222 Glasing wrichtis, goldsmythis and lapidaris. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 233 The region of Malabar, where are many cunnynge Lapidaries. a1625 J. Fletcher Rule a Wife (1640) v. 56 An excellent lapidary set these stones sure. 1684 Winstanley in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 401 Cornish Diamonds are not Polished by any Lapidary. 1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. xxxii. 234 Ratchkali, who was an exquisite lapidary, had set it in such a manner as would have imposed upon any ordinary jeweller. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xx. 141 Portions of the vertical walls..are polished..as if they had come from the hands of a lapidary. 1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour v. 81 The productions of the sculptor and the lapidary. †b. One who is skilled in the nature and kinds of gems or precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > [noun] > connoisseur of precious stones lapidaryc1440 stonerc1440 lapidarist1607 lapidist1647 gemmologist1931 c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xxiv. 89 He went to a lapadary, that was expert in the vertue of stonys. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande i. f. 1^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I If it shall stande wyth your Honour his pleasure (whome I take to be an experte Lapidarie). 1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xxxii. 14 The bright Carbuncle (whose wondrous flame Pussles the skillfull Lapidare to Name). a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 166 The Lapidary tells you how the Compassionate Turcoise confesseth the Sickness of his Wearer by changing colour. 1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 145 (225) I find twelve species of the emerald described by lapidaries. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 361 This name [Pudding stone] was invented by English Lapidaries. 2. A treatise on (precious) stones. Obsolete exc. Historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > [noun] > treatise on lapidaryc1384 c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 262 The fynest stones faire That men reden in the lapidaire. c1440 J. Lydgate Secrees 539 I dar seyn breffly, and nat tarye, Is noon suych stoon ffound in the lapydarye. c1480 (a1400) St. Margaret 2 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 47 Qwa wil þe vertu wyt of stanis, in þe lapidar ma fynd ane is [etc.]. 1652 E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 221 Alle Stonys in the lapidery. 1884 J. A. Symonds Shakspere's Predecessors xiii. 512 The Bestiaries and Lapidaries of the Middle Ages. †3. collective. [after nouns in -ery suffix.] Precious stones in general; jewellery. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > [noun] gemc825 stonec825 gemstonec1000 perrya1300 precious stonec1300 jewela1400 regalc1426 precious pierc1450 margaritea1500 lapidary1509 hardstone1853 shiner1884 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > [noun] jewelleryc1400 pierreriea1450 usker1536 lapidary1609 bijouterie1815 junk1911 tomfoolery1930 tom1955 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lvii There is no..Carbuncle Ruby..Nor other lapydary comparable to me. 1609 R. Armin Hist. Two Maids More-clacke sig. F 4 A iewell..Whose liuing beauty staind all lapidary. Compounds lapidary bee n. (see quots.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > member of family Bombidae (bumble-bee) > bombus lapidarius lapidary bee1854 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 68 The lapidary red-tipped bees, that built amid the recesses of ancient cairns, and in old dry stone walls. 1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands vii. 138 The Lapidary Bee (Bombus lapidarius). lapidary mill n. (also lapidary wheel, lapidary's mill, lapidary's wheel) the grinding and polishing apparatus of the lapidary. ΚΠ 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 738 The lapidary's mill, or wheel. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Lapidary-mill, Lapidary-wheel. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 58 As though they [the crystals] had just been polished at the lapidary's wheel. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.a1382
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