lapidify

English

Etymology

From Latin lapis (“stone”) +‎ -ify.

Verb

lapidify (third-person singular simple present lapidifies, present participle lapidifying, simple past and past participle lapidified)

1. (intransitive) To become stone or stony.
2. (transitive) To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.
3. (transitive) To cause to become permanent; to solidify.
   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 303:

     The rule of the Abang, in an age when the techniques existed to lapidify any rule to permanency, was, because of the very rise of a party, doomed.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lapidify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)