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Definition of Lapidary
1. Adjective. Of or relating to precious stones or the art of working with them. "Lapidary art"
2. Noun. An expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them.
3. Noun. A skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones.
Definition of Lapidary
1. n. An artificer who cuts, polishes, and engraves precious stones; hence, a dealer in precious stones.
2. a. Of or pertaining to the art of cutting stones, or engraving on stones, either gems or monuments; as, lapidary ornamentation.
Definition of Lapidary
1. Noun. A person who cuts, polishes, engraves, or deals in gems. ¹
2. Noun. (archaic) a treatise on precious stones ¹
3. Adjective. Pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them. ¹
4. Adjective. Suitable for inscriptions; efficient, stately, concise. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lapidary
1. one who works with precious stones [n -DARIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lapidary
Literary usage of Lapidary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Legends and Satires from Medieval Literature by Martha Hale Shackford (1913)
"Macmillan and Company, London, 1895. lapidary SELECTIONS FROM LAPIDARIES ...
There was so much interest in this lapidary that it was frequently translated ..."
2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"The apparatus employed by the lapidary consists almost exclusively of wheels ...
The various disks used by the lapidary are adjusted to a vertical spindle ..."
3. Insect Architecture by James Rennie (1830)
"lapidary-BEES. A bee still more common, perhaps, than the carder, is the orange-tailed
... Unlike the carder, the lapidary carries to its nest bits of moss, ..."
4. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society (1892)
"... PROCESSES OF THE ABORIGINAL lapidary. I BY JOSEPH D. M'GUIRE. In nearly every
city of the world public collections of prehistoric archeology are found, ..."
5. Gutenberg, and the Art of Printing by Emily Clemens Pearson (1871)
"For not only was he educated, but he cultivated a literary taste, and had chosen
a trade, that of the lapidary, or polisher of precious stones. ..."
6. Intaglio Engraving, Past and Present by Edward Renton (1896)
"Meanwhile the harder and finer stones had been successfully conquered by the
lapidary, who at that time produced work which would even at the present day be ..."
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