inlapidate
English
Etymology
From in- (“in”) + Latin lapis, lapidis (“stone”).
Verb
inlapidate (third-person singular simple present inlapidates, present participle inlapidating, simple past and past participle inlapidated)
- (archaic, transitive) To convert into a stony substance; to petrify.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 inlapidate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)