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单词 lapideous
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lapideousadj.

/ləˈpɪdɪəs/
Forms: Also 1600s -ious.
Etymology: < Latin lapideus, < lapid-, lapis stone.
Now rare.
1. Of the nature of stone, stony.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > [adjective]
lapidial1599
lapideous1646
saxatile1651
petrous1657
petrose1661
saxeous1671
stony1723
petrific1759
lapidose1807
lithoidal1833
lithoid1841
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. v. 91 The..lapidificall juyce of the sea..entring the parts of that plant..converts it into a lapideous substance. View more context for this quotation
1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 112 This Lapidious Concretion took up the whole Cavity of the Bladder.
1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall xv. §7. 164 From malleable and metallic they become lapideous.
1865 A. S. Herschel in Intellectual Observer No. 39. 220 The lapideous morsels.
2. Consisting of or inscribed on stone. Obsolete.
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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
1807 G. 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.
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