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Definition of Lapidifying
1. lapidify [v] - See also: lapidify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lapidifying
Literary usage of Lapidifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Permanence and Evolution: An Inquiry Into the Supposed Mutability of Animal by Sidney Edward Bouverie Bouverie-Pusey (1882)
"... would not have made their case much better by maintaining that the lapidifying
juice or the like, were making shells at the ..."
2. The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1908)
"... or some " lapidifying juice," than the fossil theories of geology, or of
Voltaire who, rather than accept these fossil theories which seemed to favor ..."
3. On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Creation of by William Kirby (1835)
"... of-pearl of the shell ; they are produced by the extravasation of a lapidifying
fluid, secreted in the organs of the animal and filtered by its glands. ..."
4. Elements of Geology; Or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1865)
"... calcareous.f It is also clear that the lapidifying matter was not introduced
laterally from the strata through which the fossil passes, as most of these ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1861)
"... in the ancient prevalence of that high temperature which the laboratory of
nature and art shows to be the most capable of lapidifying stony materials. ..."
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