lapidify

3 definitions found

lapidify - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Lapidify \La*pid"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lapidified; p. pr.
     & vb. n. Lapidifying.] [Cf. f. lapidifier. See Lapidific,
     and -fy.]
     To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.
     [1913 Webster]

  Lapidify \La*pid"i*fy\, v. i.
     To become stone or stony.
     [1913 Webster]

lapidify - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  lapidify
      v 1: change into stone; "the wood petrified with time" [syn:
           lapidify, petrify]