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Definition of Lapidified
1. lapidify [v] - See also: lapidify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lapidified
Literary usage of Lapidified
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anthropological Treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Thomas Bendyshe, Karl Friedrich Heinrich Marx, Pierre Flourens, John Hunter, Rudolph Wagner (1865)
"Our limestone swarms likewise with numerous kinds of lapidified marine creatures,
... Amongst the quite countless host of other lapidified marine creatures, ..."
2. Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology by Gustav Bischof (1854)
"It was therefore a silicified wood; and this wood had certainly not been lapidified
by the water of the lake. This, as well as the other specimens, ..."
3. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall by Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (1828)
"The argillaceous part gradually increases upwards, till it becomes a bed of clay :
it is only the inferior and more siliceous beds that are lapidified. ..."
4. Transactions by Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (1838)
"The argillaceous part gradually increases upwards, till it becomes a bed of clay:
it is only the inferior and more siliceous beds that are lapidified. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The earlier commentators explained fossils as due to the mystical action of the
stars or the mysterious working of spiritual forces like the vis lapidified ..."
6. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1859)
"... too sagacious and circumspect to pronounce hastily on the affinities between
the lapidified, extinct groups of vegetables and those which now prevail. ..."
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