lapidescence
English
Etymology
Latin
Noun
lapidescence (countable and uncountable, plural lapidescences)
- The state or quality of being lapidescent.
- The process of hardening into a stone substance.
- 1982, John Banville, The Newton Letter
- The process of lapidescence had begun: the world was turning him into a monument to himself.
- 1982, John Banville, The Newton Letter
- A stony concretion.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Thomas Browne to this entry?)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 lapidescence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)